Forolinia lineata
No picture of Forolinia lineata 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 lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForoliniaPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Forolinia lineata 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Forolinia lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Forolinia lineata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Forolinia lineata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Clathrodictyon boreale1 site
- Clathrodictyon sulevi1 site
- Dalmanella cyclica1 site
- Desmidodictyon exoticum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon macrotuberculatum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon nikitini1 site
- Neoplatystrophia affabilis1 site
- Pachystylostroma estoniense1 site
- Plectostroma necopinatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Forolinia lineata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 6 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 Forolinia lineata 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 lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Forolinia lineata 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 itForolinia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nestor 1964