Fluctuaria specialis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FluctuariaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Fluctuaria specialis 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Fluctuaria specialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fluctuaria specialis and its relatives
PermianWhere Fluctuaria specialis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Brachythyrina2 sites
- Callispirina ornata2 sites
- Choristites2 sites
- Eliva mignon2 sites
- Incisius longlinensis2 sites
- Linoproductus simensis2 sites
- Marginifera2 sites
- Martinia manchuriensis2 sites
- Plicatifera2 sites
- Alexenia gratiodentalis1 site
- Alphachoristites trautscholdi1 site
- Alphaneospirifer anshunensis1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Anteridocus swallovianus1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Brachythyris ufensis1 site
- Buxtonia1 site
- Cancrinella1 site
- Cancrinella cancriniformis1 site
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti1 site
- Chonetinella uralica1 site
- Chonostegoidella minor1 site
- Choristites brachythyrisformis1 site
- Choristites pavlovi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fluctuaria specialis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fluctuaria specialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fluctuaria specialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itFluctuaria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Li 1986