Funginella

Funginella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FunginellidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya106.3 Mya195 Mya99 Mya

2 occurrences of Funginella on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

2 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

1 formation

Beudanticeras Shale — 32.45°N, 51.78°E

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The named rock units Funginella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Funginella and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Funginella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Funginella, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Funginella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Funginella 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 itFunginellidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849