Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FalcatopinnaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi 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
2 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
1 formation
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group2
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The named rock units Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Girtopinna jimflisi2 sites
- Acupipora elliptica1 site
- Cavernella1 site
- Cystodictya1 site
- Domatoceras1 site
- Dyscritella1 site
- Endolobus1 site
- Eridopora1 site
- Fabifenestella1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) tularosaensis1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) welleri1 site
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense1 site
- Goniocladia1 site
- Laxifenestella1 site
- Liroceras liratum1 site
- Meekopinna americana1 site
- Metacoceras1 site
- Penniretepora1 site
- Penniretepora flexistriata1 site
- Peripetoceras bridgeportense1 site
- Peruvispira1 site
- Phylloporella1 site
- Phymatopleura brazoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi, 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- Revision of Late Paleozoic pinnid genera and North American species of bivalve family Pinnidae1
- Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Falcatopinna bobwilliamsi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itFalcatopinna through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yancey 2024