Fistulella
Searched as Fistulella undosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Fistulella as the accepted name.
No picture of Fistulella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Fistulella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HydrozoaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Time the record covers
At most 30 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Fistulella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Fistulella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fistulella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Fistulella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Ikella3 sites
- Allonema2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Renalcis2 sites
- Rothpletzella2 sites
- Solenopora2 sites
- Alveolites1 site
- Aphrosalpinx1 site
- Axuolites1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Garwoodia1 site
- Hecetaphyton1 site
- Hedstroemia1 site
- Hercynella1 site
- Karpinskia1 site
- Ludlovia1 site
- Moelleritina sp.1 site
- Pycnostroma sp.1 site
- Scyphyphyllum sp.1 site
- Sphaerina1 site
- Spongiostroma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fistulella, 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
3 references- Pragian-Emsian crinoidal sand banks and stromatoporoid-hydrozoan buildups, Carnic Alps, Austria1
- Lower Devonian reef biota from the Carnic Alps, Austria: implications for biogeography1
- Silurian-Devonian Algal Reef Mound Complex of Southwest Alaska1
Each of the 3 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 Fistulella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Fistulella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fistulella 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 itHydrozoa through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shuysky 1970