Gigantella giganteus
No picture of Gigantella giganteus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gigantella giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GigantellaPBDB
- 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 most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Gigantella giganteus 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gigantella giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gigantella giganteus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gigantella giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Productus4 sites
- Pustula4 sites
- Camarotoechia3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Euomphalus3 sites
- Fenestella3 sites
- Lithostrotion3 sites
- Martinia3 sites
- Zaphrenthis3 sites
- ? Cliothyridina sp.2 sites
- Chonetes illinoisensis2 sites
- Chonetipustula concentrica2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Dictyoclostus inflatus2 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus2 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus2 sites
- Edmondia2 sites
- Lonsdaleia2 sites
- Orthotetes2 sites
- Platyceras2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Spirifer striatus2 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferous1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gigantella giganteus, 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
4 references- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska6
- Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska1
- The Metamorphic Series of Shasta County, California1
- Monographie des genres Productus et Chonetes1
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 Gigantella giganteus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Gigantella giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gigantella giganteus 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 itGigantella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1822)