Composita tetralobata
No picture of Composita tetralobata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita tetralobata itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita tetralobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CompositaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Composita tetralobata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group2
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The named rock units Composita tetralobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Composita tetralobata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Composita tetralobata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Chonetinella flemingi crassiradiata2 sites
- Composita subtilita2 sites
- Cymatospira montfortianus2 sites
- Derbyia crassa2 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina2 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus2 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma2 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus2 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense2 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis2 sites
- Ananias nodocostatus1 site
- Astartella concentrica1 site
- Crurithyris planoconvexa1 site
- Domatoceras1 site
- Eolissochonetes bilobatus1 site
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense1 site
- Jedria ventrica1 site
- Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens1 site
- Neospirifer dunbari1 site
- Neospirifer latus1 site
- Neospirifer triplicatus alatus1 site
- Nuculopsis girtyi1 site
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis1 site
- Petrocrania modesta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Composita tetralobata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Composita tetralobata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita tetralobata itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita tetralobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Composita tetralobata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itComposita through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoare 1960