Katoptychia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxonematidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesDevonian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 9 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence412–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya365.2 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

9 occurrences of Katoptychia 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

9 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

7 formations

Grau Riffkalk — 47.52°N, 15.22°EGrau Riffkalk — 46.65°N, 12.85°EKellerwand — 46.61°N, 13.00°ELambertenghi — 46.61°N, 12.87°EPilton — 51.08°N, 4.05°WDaleje-Trebotov — 50.03°N, 14.35°EPraha — 49.92°N, 14.08°ESchwarz Gastropoden-Kalk — 47.52°N, 15.22°E

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The named rock units Katoptychia 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.

Katoptychia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Katoptychia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Katoptychia, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Katoptychia 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 itLoxonematidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1907