Goniophora (Goniophora)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniophoraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Goniophora
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Goniophora
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Goniophora
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 25 of 30 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 30 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 14 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425 Mya387.95 Mya427.6 Mya381.4 Mya

30 occurrences of Goniophora (Goniophora) on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

30 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

13 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 23.87°N, 109.77°EWhitcliffe Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDonggangling — 24.98°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EUpper Whitcliffe — 52.00°N, 3.00°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WWhitcliffe — 51.88°N, 2.23°WUpper Blaisdon Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WUpper Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°W

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The named rock units Goniophora (Goniophora) 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.

Goniophora (Goniophora) and its relatives

Silurian

Where Goniophora (Goniophora) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Goniophora (Goniophora), 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 30 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

3D model

Source
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No picture of Goniophora (Goniophora) 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 Goniophora (Goniophora), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phillips 1848