Gshelia americana

Gshelia americana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GsheliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304.2 Mya293 Mya

7 occurrences of Gshelia americana 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

7 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

1 formation

McCloud — 40.85°N, 122.26°WMcCloud — 40.85°N, 122.23°W

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The named rock units Gshelia americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gshelia americana and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gshelia americana and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gshelia americana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gshelia americana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Gshelia americana 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 itGshelia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1982