Fetura natalensis

No picture of Fetura natalensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Fetura natalensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FeturaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Triassic260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260.4 Mya250.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Fetura natalensis 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

5 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

1 formation

Estcourt — 28.50°S, 29.17°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.00°E

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The named rock units Fetura natalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fetura natalensis and its relatives

Permian

Where Fetura natalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fetura natalensis, 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

Each 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. 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

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No picture of Fetura natalensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Fetura natalensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Fetura natalensis 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 itFetura through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lacey et al. 1975)