Girtycoelia typica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GirtycoeliaPBDB
- 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 most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Girtycoelia typica 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
2 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
- Graford Formation · Canyon Group1
- Wolf Mountain Formation · Canyon Group1
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The named rock units Girtycoelia typica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Girtycoelia typica and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Girtycoelia typica and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Coelocladia spinosa1 site
- Colospongia benjamini1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Delocrinus1 site
- Ditomopyge scitula1 site
- Eridmatus texanus1 site
- Euphemites vittatus1 site
- Gonioloboceras welleri1 site
- Lophophyllidium profundum1 site
- Meandrostia1 site
- Meekospira peracuta1 site
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus1 site
- Polidevcia bellistriata1 site
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense1 site
- Schistoceras missouriense1 site
- Straparollus pernodosus pernodosus1 site
- Strobeus primogenius1 site
- Taosia missouriensis1 site
- Trepospira discoidalis1 site
- Trepospira illinoisensis1 site
- Trypetesa caveata1 site
- Worthenia tabulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Girtycoelia typica, 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
2 references- Pennsylvanian sponges from thr Graford Formation, Wise County, Texas1
- Biostratigraphy of the Graford Formation, Missourian, Wise County, Texas1
Each of the 2 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 Girtycoelia typica 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 Girtycoelia typica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Girtycoelia typica 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 itGirtycoelia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1933