Geniculifera brevicula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeniculiferaPBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 339.9 Mya.
9 occurrences of Geniculifera brevicula on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Geniculifera brevicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Geniculifera brevicula and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Geniculifera brevicula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Brachythyris chouteauensis6 sites
- Eomartiniopsis girtyi6 sites
- Acanthoplecta inopinata5 sites
- Amesopleura texana5 sites
- Coledium evexum5 sites
- Cranaena texana5 sites
- Crassumbo inornatus5 sites
- Fusella llanoensis5 sites
- Hamburgia chappelensis5 sites
- Ovatia5 sites
- Rhynchopora sansabensis5 sites
- Sedenticellula sacra5 sites
- Shumardella obsolescens5 sites
- Tylothyris brevaurita5 sites
- Camarophorella dorsata4 sites
- Cleiothyridina tenuilineata4 sites
- Coledium undulatum4 sites
- Crurithyris parva4 sites
- Cyphotalosia masonensis4 sites
- Plectospira problematica4 sites
- Productina sampsoni4 sites
- Reticularia cooperensis4 sites
- Schizophoria4 sites
- Athyris bradyensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Geniculifera brevicula, 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- Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas6
- Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography.2
- Tournaisian-Visean brachiopods from the Gancaohu area of southern Tienshan Mountains, Xinjiang, NW China1
Each of the 9 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 Geniculifera brevicula 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 Geniculifera brevicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geniculifera brevicula 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 itGeniculifera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1967