Flexaria

Flexaria

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
BuxtoniiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 24 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferous353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–320 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342.9 Mya323.4 Mya352.6 Mya317.9 Mya

24 occurrences of Flexaria on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

24 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

12 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMonroe Canyon — 43.83°N, 111.48°WDiamond Peak — 39.55°N, 115.83°WDiamond Peak — 39.56°N, 115.83°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.78°WRest Spring — 36.93°N, 118.09°WRest Spring — 36.52°N, 117.01°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WGreat Blue Limestone — 42.19°N, 112.25°WAmsden — 43.66°N, 109.60°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.50°WWatahomigi — 36.50°N, 113.60°WDagangou — 36.08°N, 94.92°EArco Hills — 43.63°N, 113.30°W

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The named rock units Flexaria 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.

Flexaria and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Flexaria and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Flexaria, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Flexaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBuxtoniini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.