Fenestella columnaris
No picture of Fenestella columnaris 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 Fenestella columnaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FenestellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fenestella columnaris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Fenestella columnaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fenestella columnaris and its relatives
PermianWhere Fenestella columnaris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Alternifenestella horologia2 sites
- Acanthalosia concava1 site
- Alternifenestella spinifera1 site
- Australopolypora fovea1 site
- Costatumulus meritus1 site
- Cyrtella furcata1 site
- Echinalosia preovalis1 site
- Eurydesma hobartense konincki1 site
- Fenestella affluensa1 site
- Fenestella dispersa1 site
- Fenestella fossula1 site
- Fenestella simulatrix1 site
- Magniplicatina undulata1 site
- Polypora retificis1 site
- Polyporella woodsi1 site
- Protoretepora ampla1 site
- Ramipora ambrosioides1 site
- Rectifenestella bowenensis1 site
- Taeniothaerus subquadratus1 site
- Terrakea dickinsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fenestella columnaris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Permian Polyzoa from the Bowen Basin2
- Bryozoa from the Wandagee and Nooncanbah series (Permian) of Western Australia2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fenestella columnaris 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 Fenestella columnaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fenestella columnaris was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFenestella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Crockford 1944)