Gefonia sinuata
No picture of Gefonia sinuata 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 Gefonia sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GefoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gefonia sinuata 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gefonia sinuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gefonia sinuata and its relatives
PermianWhere Gefonia sinuata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Cartorhium rhomboidalis3 sites
- Cathayspirina fenshuijiangensis3 sites
- Dielasma giganteum3 sites
- Fredericksolasma sublaevis3 sites
- Lowenstamia gegyaiensis3 sites
- Purdonella nikitini3 sites
- Stenoscisma mutabilis3 sites
- Enteletes talimuheensis2 sites
- Meristorygma tarimensis2 sites
- Neomunella liaoi2 sites
- Neospirifer plana2 sites
- Paraspiriferina transversa2 sites
- Phricodothyris uzunbulakensis2 sites
- Stenoscisma grabaui2 sites
- Uncinunellina timorensis2 sites
- Vediproductus punctatiformis2 sites
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Astegosia1 site
- Eliva panduriformis1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Hunzina tenuisulcata1 site
- Kochiproductus tianchiensis1 site
- Permophricodothyris indica1 site
- Phricodothyris bachuensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gefonia sinuata, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gefonia sinuata 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 Gefonia sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gefonia sinuata 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 itGefonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhang 1983)