Holmesella quadrata
No picture of Holmesella quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Holmesella quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolmesellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 8.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 293.52 Mya.
2 occurrences of Holmesella quadrata 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous50%
- Permian50%
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
- Minnelusa Formation1
- Grenola Formation · Council Grove Group1
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The named rock units Holmesella quadrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Holmesella quadrata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Holmesella quadrata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cladodus2 sites
- Acrodus1 site
- Agassizodus1 site
- Agassizodus variabilis1 site
- Caseodus eatoni1 site
- Chomatodus1 site
- Ctenacanthus1 site
- Edestus1 site
- Glikmanius occidentalis1 site
- Janassa1 site
- Lissodus1 site
- Listracanthus hystrix1 site
- Orodus1 site
- Petalodus allegheniensis1 site
- Petrodus patelliformis1 site
- Physonemus mirabilis1 site
- Sandalodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Holmesella quadrata, 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
2 references- A Paleozoic shark fauna from the Council Grove Group (Lower Permian)1
- Chondrichthyes from the Upper Part of the Minnelusa Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian: Desmoinesian) Meade County, South Dakota1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Holmesella quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Holmesella quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Holmesella quadrata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHolmesella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnel 1931