Didymosella larvalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidymosellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
13 occurrences of Didymosella larvalis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Mt Brown "E" Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Didymosella larvalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Didymosella larvalis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Didymosella larvalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Cellaria contigua8 sites
- Smittinella tatei7 sites
- Escharella elongata6 sites
- Escharoides duplicata6 sites
- Ogiva concamerata6 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis5 sites
- Biflustra regularis5 sites
- Cellaria bicornis5 sites
- Chiastosella conservata5 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata5 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata5 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons5 sites
- Porina gracilis5 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius5 sites
- Trigonopora vermicularis5 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica4 sites
- Aspidostoma airense4 sites
- Cellaria australis4 sites
- Crateropora patula4 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi4 sites
- Glenelgia crawfordensis4 sites
- Hincksina geminata4 sites
- Hippoporina burlingtoniensis4 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Didymosella larvalis, 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
3 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria8
- Report on a collection of fossils from the Lakes Entrance shaft, Gippsland, Victoria3
- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand2
Each of the 13 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
Media content1
Picture of Didymosella larvalis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- 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 itDidymosella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1869)