Constellaria florida

Constellaria florida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConstellariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Constellaria
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Constellaria
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Constellaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451 Mya – 450.2 Mya458.7 Mya449 Mya

5 occurrences of Constellaria florida on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 occurrences

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

3 formations

Leipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°W

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The named rock units Constellaria florida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Constellaria florida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Constellaria florida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Constellaria florida, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Constellaria florida

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itConstellaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882