Fardenia scotica
No picture of Fardenia scotica 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 Fardenia scotica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FardeniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fardenia scotica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Fardenia scotica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fardenia scotica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Fardenia scotica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
278 taxa- Anoptambonites monetus2 sites
- Anoptambonites quaesita2 sites
- Anticostia teres2 sites
- Bojokoralaspis peregrina2 sites
- Bronteopsis sola2 sites
- Cheirocrinus2 sites
- Chonetoidea radiatula2 sites
- Cyclospira2 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria2 sites
- Dalmanitina mucronata2 sites
- Dolerorthis intercostata2 sites
- Duftonia morrisiana2 sites
- Echinosphaerites quarendus2 sites
- Epitomyonia2 sites
- Gravicalymene asperula2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi2 sites
- Kozlowskites nuntius2 sites
- Leptaena rugosa2 sites
- Marekolithus kosoviensis2 sites
- Mjoesina2 sites
- Orbiculoidea squammosa2 sites
- Oxoplecia plicata2 sites
- Phillipsinella parabola2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fardenia scotica, 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 Ashgill rocks of the Glyn Ceirog district, North Wales2
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
Each of the 4 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 Fardenia scotica 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 Fardenia scotica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fardenia scotica 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 itFardenia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamont 1935