Flabellum wailesii
No picture of Flabellum wailesii 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 Flabellum wailesii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Flabellum wailesii on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group7
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The named rock units Flabellum wailesii 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.
Flabellum wailesii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Flabellum wailesii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana6 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus5 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata5 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus4 sites
- Callista annexa4 sites
- Capulus americanus4 sites
- Chlamys nupera4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus4 sites
- Gigantostrea trigonalis4 sites
- Natica permunda4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis4 sites
- Periarchus lyelli4 sites
- Pitar securiformis4 sites
- Teredo mississippiensis4 sites
- Balanophyllia irrorata3 sites
- Corbula densata3 sites
- Endopachys maclurii3 sites
- Glycymeris filosa3 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola3 sites
- Paraster armiger3 sites
- Turritella perdita3 sites
- Agaronia media2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Flabellum wailesii, 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- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region6
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi1
- Observations on the Eocene deposit of Jackson, Mississippi, with descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells and corals1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Flabellum wailesii 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 Flabellum wailesii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flabellum wailesii 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 itFlabellum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1856