Khalfinella elegantula
No picture of Khalfinella elegantula 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 Khalfinella elegantula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KhalfinellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Khalfinella elegantula 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Khalfinella elegantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Khalfinella elegantula and its relatives
DevonianWhere Khalfinella elegantula and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Archaeozonotriletes aff. extensus1 site
- Bornhardtina1 site
- Favosites goldfussi1 site
- Heliolites porosus1 site
- Homoctenus1 site
- Khalfinella carinata1 site
- Nowakia1 site
- Polygnathus1 site
- Polygnathus linguiformis1 site
- Polygnathus pseudofoliatus1 site
- Retusotriletes1 site
- Stachyodes1 site
- Stiliolina sp.1 site
- Stringocephalus burtini1 site
- Thamnopora1 site
- Trupetostroma1 site
- Uncites (Uncites) gryphus1 site
- Viriatellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Khalfinella elegantula, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Khalfinella elegantula 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 Khalfinella elegantula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Khalfinella elegantula 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 itKhalfinella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elkin 1968