Fascifera

Fascifera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DraboviinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Draboviidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Draboviidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Draboviidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 21 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 21 occurrencesSilurian462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459.7 Mya443.1 Mya461.6 Mya432.3 Mya

21 occurrences of Fascifera 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

21 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

9 formations

Beechhill Cove — 45.62°N, 61.97°WSolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EPierce Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WRidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WFonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WBardahessiagh — 54.60°N, 6.88°WCraighead — 55.25°N, 4.85°WGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.34°E

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The named rock units Fascifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fascifera and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fascifera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Fascifera, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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

Media content1

Picture of Fascifera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fascifera 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1942