Ellisina gregsoni
Tournouër, André · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllisinaPBDB
- 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 most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ellisina gregsoni on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 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
1 formation
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Ellisina gregsoni 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.
Ellisina gregsoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ellisina gregsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Biflustra regularis3 sites
- Cellaria bicornis3 sites
- Cellaria contigua3 sites
- Crateropora patula3 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata3 sites
- Didymosella larvalis3 sites
- Escharella elongata3 sites
- Escharoides duplicata3 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi3 sites
- Gigantopora tuberculosa3 sites
- Glenelgia crawfordensis3 sites
- Hincksina geminata3 sites
- Ogiva concamerata3 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata3 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons3 sites
- Retepora tridentata3 sites
- Smittinella tatei3 sites
- Tetraplaria australis3 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis2 sites
- Aspidostoma airense2 sites
- Biflustra delta2 sites
- Bimicroporella watersi2 sites
- Cellaria australis2 sites
- Cellaria biaperta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ellisina gregsoni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Ellisina gregsoni
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Tournouër, André
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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 itEllisina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1895)