Dunbarella striata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DunbarellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
12 occurrences of Dunbarella striata 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
12 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
5 formations
- Red Tanks Formation4
- Conemaugh Formation3
- Wild Cow Formation · Madera Group2
- Cherokee Shale Formation1
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
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The named rock units Dunbarella striata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dunbarella striata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Dunbarella striata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Crinoidea5 sites
- Lingula carbonaria5 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa4 sites
- Acharax (Nacrosolemya) trapezoides3 sites
- Acharax radiata3 sites
- Chonetinella flemingi3 sites
- Composita subtilita3 sites
- Euphemites vittatus3 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis3 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus3 sites
- Myalinella meeki3 sites
- Nuculopsis3 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi3 sites
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis3 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis3 sites
- Parallelodon3 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata3 sites
- Strobeus paludinaeformis3 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferus2 sites
- Ammonoidea2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides2 sites
- Anthraconeilo taffiana2 sites
- Astartella concentrica2 sites
- Astartella vera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Dunbarella striata, 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
8 references- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico4
- The fauna of the Ames and Brush Creek shales of the Conemaugh Formation of western Maryland2
- A Late Pennsylvanian restricted-marine fauna from the Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico in Geology and paleontology of the Kinney Brick Quarry, Late Pennsylvanian, central New Mexico, Jiri Zidek, editor1
- Overview of Upper Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology, Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico1
- An new encrinasterid ophiuroid from the Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian) of Western Pennsylvania, and revision of the Encrinasteridae1
- A new marine member in the Conemaugh Group of Ohio1
- R. P. Stevens' Pelecypod Species from the Brush Creek Shale Member (Conemaugh) of Ohio1
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas1
Each of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dunbarella striata
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No 3D scan of Dunbarella striata 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 itDunbarella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stevens 1858)