Famenella

Ostracoda, a relative of Famenella — not Famenella itself

Not Famenella. This is Ostracoda, a relative.

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 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
BairdiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesDevonian375–375 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences375.7 Mya368 Mya

12 occurrences of Famenella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

Kowala — 50.92°N, 20.58°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°E

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The named rock units Famenella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Famenella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Famenella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Famenella, 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

3 references

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 Ostracoda

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Famenella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itBairdiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.