Flexifenestella komiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlexifenestellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Flexifenestella komiensis 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Flexifenestella komiensis 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.
Flexifenestella komiensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Flexifenestella komiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Mackinneyella brevicellata3 sites
- Polypora confirmata3 sites
- Polypora voluminosa3 sites
- Coscinotrypa microcellata2 sites
- Coscinotrypa tumidicellata2 sites
- Fabifenestella sulaensis2 sites
- Flexifenestella eichwaldi2 sites
- Flexifenestella reteporinaeformis2 sites
- Hexagonella petschorica2 sites
- Polyporella perfecta2 sites
- Ascoporella borealis1 site
- Ascoporella enormis1 site
- Coscinium cyclops1 site
- Cyrtella kulikiana1 site
- Fistulipora timanensis1 site
- Fistulipora venusta1 site
- Fistulipora volongensis1 site
- Flexifenestella foraminosa1 site
- Flexifenestella petschorica1 site
- Kingopora exigua1 site
- Kolymopecten mutabilis1 site
- Lithophaga gigantea1 site
- Lyrocladia undata1 site
- Morrisipecten keyserlingi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Flexifenestella komiensis, 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
2 referencesEach 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. 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 Flexifenestella komiensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Flexifenestella komiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flexifenestella komiensis 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 itFlexifenestella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kruchinina 1973)