Fenestrulina malusi
Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FenestrulinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 129 ka.
11 occurrences of Fenestrulina malusi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrences- Miocene9%
- Pliocene27%
- Pleistocene64%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Fenestrulina malusi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fenestrulina malusi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fenestrulina malusi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
277 taxa- Microporella ciliata6 sites
- Arachnopusia unicornis5 sites
- Cellaria immersa5 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina4 sites
- Micropora coriacea4 sites
- Odontionella cyclops4 sites
- Amphiblestrum trifolium3 sites
- Cellaria tenuirostris3 sites
- Chaperia acanthina3 sites
- Chaperia rubida3 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni3 sites
- Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina3 sites
- Escharoides angela3 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa3 sites
- Hippomenella vellicata3 sites
- Macropora grandis3 sites
- Opaeophora lepida3 sites
- Petraliella firmata3 sites
- Selenaria macgillivrayi3 sites
- Spiroporina polypora3 sites
- Steginoporella neozelanica3 sites
- Calloporina diadema2 sites
- Celleporina2 sites
- Chaperia colensoi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fenestrulina malusi, 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
5 references- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand5
- Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions3
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
- Fossil bryozoa from the Pleistocene of Southern California1
Each of the 11 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 Fenestrulina malusi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Bernard Picton
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fenestrulina malusi 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 itFenestrulina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Audouin 1826)