Contexta binata
No picture of Contexta binata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Contexta binata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasyporellaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Contexta binata 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Contexta binata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Contexta binata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Contexta binata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Amphilichas2 sites
- Apidium2 sites
- Eokosovopeltis romanovskii2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Mastopora2 sites
- Mesotaphraspis2 sites
- Pliomerina2 sites
- Renalcis2 sites
- Amsassia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Clathrodictyida1 site
- Coelosphaeridium1 site
- Communicrinus1 site
- Cyclocrinites nikitini1 site
- Discoceras1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Flexicrinus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glaphurina1 site
- Lichenaria1 site
- Malovicrinus1 site
- Moniliporella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Contexta binata, 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- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics1
- Anderkenskaya biogermnaya gryada i istoriya yeye obrazovaniya [The Anderken bioherm ridge and the history of its origin]1
Each 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Contexta binata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Contexta binata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Contexta binata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDasyporella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gnilovskaya 1972