Forolinia
No picture of Forolinia 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 Forolinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RosenellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At least 2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 438.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 433.5 Mya.
20 occurrences of Forolinia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
20 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Forolinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Forolinia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Forolinia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum4 sites
- Clathrodictyon boreale2 sites
- Clathrodictyon clivosum2 sites
- Clathrodictyon sulevi2 sites
- Ecclimadictyon macrotuberculatum2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Intexodictyon avitum2 sites
- Acidolites1 site
- Alispira1 site
- Atrypa hedei1 site
- Camptodictyon penefastigiatum1 site
- Catenipora gotlandica1 site
- Clathrodictyon demissum1 site
- Clathrodictyon lennuki1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Dalmanella cyclica1 site
- Desmidodictyon exoticum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon koigiense1 site
- Ecclimadictyon microfastigiatum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon nikitini1 site
- Eomyelodactylus foerstei1 site
- Hesperorthis davidsoni1 site
- Hindella1 site
- Mesofavosites multiporus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Forolinia, 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
3 references- Nestor et al., 201011
- Ordovician and Llandoverian Stromatoporoidea of Estonia8
- A Stratigraphic revision of the lowermost Silurian in the northern east - baltic area1
Each of the 20 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 Forolinia 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 Forolinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Forolinia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRosenellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.