Girtycoelia

Girtycoelia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GirtycoeliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 7 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic362–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 6 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences303.7 Mya211.18 Mya362 Mya203 Mya

13 occurrences of Girtycoelia 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

13 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

10 formations

Iola — 37.42°N, 95.68°WIola — 36.14°N, 96.24°WShale Hill — 39.36°N, 93.50°WWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WPlattsburg — 37.52°N, 95.68°WRat Buri — 13.46°N, 99.74°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EHess — 30.36°N, 103.16°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.82°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°W

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The named rock units Girtycoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girtycoelia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Girtycoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Girtycoelia, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Girtycoelia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGirtycoeliidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1933