Floweria iowensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FloweriaPBDB
- 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 most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Floweria iowensis 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Little Cedar Formation · Cedar Valley Group7
- Coralville Formation · Cedar Valley Group5
- Cedar Valley Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Floweria iowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Floweria iowensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Floweria iowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Athyris6 sites
- Tylothyris6 sites
- Cranaena5 sites
- Desquamatia (Independatrypa)5 sites
- Elita5 sites
- Pentamerella5 sites
- Pholidostrophia5 sites
- Orthospirifer4 sites
- Atribonium subovata3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Desquamatia3 sites
- Productella belanskii3 sites
- Pseudoatrypa3 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta)3 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)3 sites
- Petrocrania2 sites
- Schizophoria lata2 sites
- Spinatrypa2 sites
- Atribonium1 site
- Atribonium swallovi1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cranaena romingeri1 site
- Desquamatia (Seratrypa)1 site
- Devonochonetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Floweria iowensis, 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- Faunal signatures of Middle-Upper Devonian depositional sequences and sea level fluctuations in the Iowa Basin: US Midcontinent7
- The brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa3
- Strophomenacea of the Cedar Valley Limestone of Iowa2
- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Floweria iowensis 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 Floweria iowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Floweria iowensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFloweria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stainbrook 1943)