Girtyocoelia

No picture of Girtyocoelia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Girtyocoelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnoplocoeliinaePBDB
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 195 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 95 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 95 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 95 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 95 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 80 of 95 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrences465–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–444 Mya — about 9 occurrences444–436 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–335 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 5 occurrences277–269 Mya — about 4 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 33 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 33 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences449.5 Mya254.14 Mya465 Mya248 Mya

95 occurrences of Girtyocoelia 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

95 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

21 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WLyudyanza — 42.93°N, 133.04°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°ELyudyanza — 42.82°N, 133.01°EAl Jil — 23.13°N, 58.33°EHess — 30.41°N, 103.12°WPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WOum el Afia Shale — 33.42°N, 10.18°EDescon — 55.89°N, 132.99°WKangaroo Creek — 41.41°N, 122.76°WLengwu — 29.80°N, 119.65°ECracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.41°N, 10.20°EJamal — 33.98°N, 56.79°ELercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°EBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WMaokou — 24.02°N, 105.09°EChelamchin — 38.90°N, 71.15°EAuernig — 46.57°N, 13.25°EMontgomery Limestone — 40.04°N, 120.83°WLas Delicias — 26.40°N, 102.94°W

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The named rock units Girtyocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girtyocoelia and its relatives

Permian

Where Girtyocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Girtyocoelia, 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

23 references

Each of the 95 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Girtyocoelia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Girtyocoelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Girtyocoelia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itEnoplocoeliinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossman 1909