Fenestrellina
Searched as Fenestrellina lyelli. The Paleobiology Database treats Fenestrellina as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FenestellidaePBDB
- 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 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Fenestrellina on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group3
- Macumber and White Quarry Formation · Windsor Group1
- Miller Creek and Wentworth Station Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Fenestrellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fenestrellina and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Fenestrellina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
926 taxa- Crinoidea43 sites
- Polypora27 sites
- Rhombopora26 sites
- Derbyia24 sites
- Composita22 sites
- Echinoidea22 sites
- Minilya19 sites
- Chonetinella18 sites
- Tubuliporata15 sites
- Antiquatonia14 sites
- Linoproductus14 sites
- Punctospirifer14 sites
- Septopora14 sites
- Chonetes11 sites
- Parajuresania11 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa10 sites
- Fistulipora10 sites
- Leioclema10 sites
- Lophophyllidium10 sites
- Rhabdomeson10 sites
- Spirifer10 sites
- Composita subtilita9 sites
- Crurithyris9 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Fenestrellina, 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 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Fenestrellina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fenestrellina 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.
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What may have been alongside itFenestellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849