Donaldina pulchra
No picture of Donaldina pulchra 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 Donaldina pulchra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonaldinaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Donaldina pulchra 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Donaldina pulchra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donaldina pulchra and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Donaldina pulchra and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Paraparchites5 sites
- Streblopteria5 sites
- Lingularia squamiformis4 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense3 sites
- Retispira decussatus3 sites
- Aclisina pulchra intermedia2 sites
- Edmondia2 sites
- Glabrocingulum2 sites
- Glomospira2 sites
- Productidae2 sites
- Rastidiscus sp.2 sites
- Aclisina1 site
- Aclisina striatula1 site
- Acteonina carbonaria1 site
- Anomphalus umbilicoliratus1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Baylea spirolirata1 site
- Baylea tabulata1 site
- Baylea yvanii1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) costatus1 site
- Borestus1 site
- Borestus similis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Donaldina pulchra, 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- The paleoecology of a Lower Carboniferous marine transgression5
- The Lower Carboniferous gastropod fauna from the Hotwells Limestone of Compton Martin, Somerset. Part II1
Each of the 6 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 Donaldina pulchra 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 Donaldina pulchra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donaldina pulchra 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 itDonaldina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1881)