Flabellina

Flabellina is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs. These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Flabellinidae.

A picture published with the record for Flabellina. What it shows has not been checked.

Bernard Picton · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 198 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences271–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264.28 Mya66 Mya271 Mya58 Mya

4 occurrences of Flabellina 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

4 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

2 formations

Moreno — 36.72°N, 120.72°WCephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°E

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The named rock units Flabellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flabellina and its relatives

Permian

Where Flabellina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Flabellina, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Flabellina

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Bernard Picton
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No 3D scan of Flabellina 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839