Gypidula pseudogaleata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GypidulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gypidula pseudogaleata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Gypidula pseudogaleata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gypidula pseudogaleata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gypidula pseudogaleata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica4 sites
- Atrypa reticularis4 sites
- Cyrtina4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Strophonella bohemica4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Leptaenisca3 sites
- Levenea3 sites
- Meristina3 sites
- Quadrithyris minuens3 sites
- Schizophoria (Eoschizophoria) parafragilis3 sites
- Toquimaella kayi3 sites
- Aesopomum varistriatus2 sites
- Atrypina simpsoni2 sites
- Brachyprion mirabilis2 sites
- Cyrtinaella causa2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Machaeraria2 sites
- Megakozlowskiella2 sites
- Mesodouvillina varistriata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gypidula pseudogaleata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Gypidula pseudogaleata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gypidula pseudogaleata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGypidula through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1857)