Dirafinesquina globosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DirafinesquinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dirafinesquina globosa 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
4 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 Dirafinesquina globosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dirafinesquina globosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dirafinesquina globosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Dulankarella2 sites
- Orthis2 sites
- Amphoriops1 site
- Anisopleurella antiqua1 site
- Bellimurina (Bellimurina) fluctuosa1 site
- Calyptolepta1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Glyptomena1 site
- Lepidomena multiplicata1 site
- Leptastichidia1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) minor1 site
- Neseuretinus birmanicus1 site
- Nicolella sylvatica1 site
- Nileus1 site
- Opsimasaphus1 site
- Orthoidea1 site
- Phragmorthis1 site
- Polytoechia1 site
- Porambonites1 site
- Rogorthis1 site
- Saucrorthis obtusa1 site
- Semnanostrophia lata1 site
- Virgoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dirafinesquina globosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Caradoc brachiopods from the Shan States, Burma (Myanmar)2
- The World’s second oldest strophomenoid-dominated benthic assemblage in the first Dapingian (Middle Ordovician) brachiopod fauna identified from Iran1
- Emergence of the Saucrorthis Fauna in the Middle Ordovician of northern Iran1
Each of the 4 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 Dirafinesquina globosa 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 Dirafinesquina globosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dirafinesquina globosa 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 itDirafinesquina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cocks and Zhan 1998