Geyerella americana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeyerellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
16 occurrences of Geyerella americana 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
16 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
6 formations
- Bell Canyon Formation7
- Skinner Ranch Formation3
- Capitan Formation2
- Yates Formation1
- Word Formation1
- Lenox Hills Formation1
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The named rock units Geyerella americana 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.
Geyerella americana and its relatives
PermianWhere Geyerella americana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Martinia rhomboidalis10 sites
- Anomaloria anomala8 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata8 sites
- Composita affinis8 sites
- Anteridocus swallovianus7 sites
- Derbyia7 sites
- Dielasma sulcatum7 sites
- Ombonia guadalupensis7 sites
- Paraspiriferina billingsi7 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium7 sites
- Crenispirifer myllus6 sites
- Deltarina magnicostata6 sites
- Dielasma cordatum6 sites
- Orbicoelia guadalupensis6 sites
- Sarganostega pressa6 sites
- Stenoscisma trabeatum6 sites
- Allorhynchus venustulum5 sites
- Arionthia lamaria5 sites
- Collemataria spatulata5 sites
- Fascicosta longaeva5 sites
- Heterelasma shumardianum5 sites
- Heterelasma venustulum5 sites
- Paucispinifera latidorsata5 sites
- Spiriferellina nuda5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Geyerella americana, 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- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI8
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda5
- The Guadalupian fauna3
Each of the 16 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 Geyerella americana 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 Geyerella americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geyerella americana 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 itGeyerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909