Fenestella firmior
No picture of Fenestella firmior 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 firmior, 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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fenestella firmior 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fenestella firmior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fenestella firmior and its relatives
PermianWhere Fenestella firmior and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Acanthocladia guadalupensis2 sites
- Septopora orientalis2 sites
- Septopora robusta2 sites
- Timanodictya2 sites
- Acanthoclema1 site
- Adlatipora1 site
- Chondronia ovalis1 site
- Collumatus solitarius1 site
- Composita enormis1 site
- Composita pilula1 site
- Cooperina subcuneata1 site
- Cyclacantharia transitoria1 site
- Delaria granti1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Derbyia cincinnata1 site
- Derbyia complicata1 site
- Derbyia laqueata1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Dyoros (Dyoros) vulgaris1 site
- Echinauris lappacea1 site
- Enteletes1 site
- Enteletes exiguus1 site
- Heterelasma1 site
- Holotricharina sparsa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fenestella firmior, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fenestella firmior 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 firmior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fenestella firmior 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.
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. Ceretti 1963