Gracianella

Gracianella is a genus of fossil brachiopods. It was described by Johnson and Boucot in 1967, and existed from the Silurian to the Devonian of Australia, Austria, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Italy, Tajikistan, and the United States. A new species, G. paulula, was described by Andrzej Baliński in 2012, from the early Devonian of Ukraine.

No picture of Gracianella 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 Gracianella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtrypininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 71 occurrencesSilurian — about 69 of 71 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 71 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 10 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 16 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 4 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya422.7 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

71 occurrences of Gracianella 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

71 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

14 formations

Roberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.77°N, 13.25°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.13°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPozary — 49.52°N, 13.50°ECape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°EDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WRoberts Mountains — 39.94°N, 116.31°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WBlack Bog — 35.00°S, 149.00°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°ENewlands — 55.31°N, 4.70°WBirstonas — 55.67°N, 25.38°E

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The named rock units Gracianella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gracianella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Gracianella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

680 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Gracianella, 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

25 references

Each of the 71 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. 13 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 Gracianella 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 Gracianella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gracianella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAtrypininae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson and Boucot 1967