Floweria

Floweria

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
AdectorhynchinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 239 occurrencesDevonian — about 235 of 239 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 239 occurrencesCarboniferous422–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 5 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 8 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 65 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 62 occurrences382–378 Mya — about 18 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 17 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 19 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 11 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 7 occurrences365–362 Mya — about 7 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 6 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya358.86 Mya422 Mya321 Mya

239 occurrences of Floweria 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

239 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

64 formations

Moscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.25°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 75.18°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.93°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.54°N, 74.89°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.60°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.33°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WTully — 42.67°N, 75.48°WTully — 42.66°N, 75.38°WTully — 42.60°N, 75.34°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.53°WTully — 42.81°N, 75.91°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WTully — 42.58°N, 75.05°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WChemung — 41.83°N, 79.19°WChemung — 42.17°N, 77.12°WChemung — 42.33°N, 77.13°WChemung — 42.23°N, 78.40°WChemung — 42.25°N, 77.79°WChemung — 42.88°N, 79.85°WChemung — 42.17°N, 75.93°WChemung — 42.17°N, 76.50°WChemung — 42.17°N, 76.58°WChemung — 42.83°N, 76.85°WChemung — 39.65°N, 78.76°WIthaca — 41.97°N, 76.51°WIthaca — 42.20°N, 76.57°WIthaca — 42.30°N, 76.64°WIthaca — 42.33°N, 77.14°WIthaca — 42.34°N, 76.40°WIthaca — 42.45°N, 77.98°WIthaca — 42.60°N, 76.80°WIthaca — 42.87°N, 76.90°WIthaca — 42.91°N, 76.55°WIthaca — 43.13°N, 74.28°WLittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLittle Cedar — 42.32°N, 92.10°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.87°N, 112.09°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.07°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.55°WCoralville — 42.50°N, 92.00°WCoralville — 41.67°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 41.47°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLithograph City — 43.00°N, 93.00°WLithograph City — 41.67°N, 91.53°WLithograph City — 42.37°N, 92.41°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.80°WGravel Point — 45.37°N, 85.07°WGravel Point — 45.31°N, 85.29°WGravel Point — 45.35°N, 84.99°WGravel Point — 45.36°N, 85.16°WMachias — 42.33°N, 78.48°WMachias — 41.64°N, 80.15°WMachias — 41.96°N, 76.71°WMachias — 41.96°N, 77.11°WShell Rock — 43.35°N, 92.78°WLime Creek — 43.00°N, 93.00°WThree Forks — 45.79°N, 111.73°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.55°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.43°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WFerron Point — 45.15°N, 83.33°WFerron Point — 45.20°N, 83.40°WSchoharie Grit — 42.67°N, 74.31°WSchoharie Grit — 42.58°N, 73.97°WSchoharie Grit — 42.67°N, 74.12°WBeers Hill equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WWiscoy Sandstone — 42.23°N, 77.58°WWiscoy Sandstone — 42.07°N, 77.20°WThree Forks Shale — 45.89°N, 111.96°WThree Forks Shale — 45.85°N, 111.65°WWilliams Island — 50.36°N, 81.58°W

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The named rock units Floweria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Floweria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Floweria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 186 sites for Floweria, 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

46 references

Each of the 239 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. 34 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 Floweria

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 itAdectorhynchinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Dutro 1982