Kiangsiella distorta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KiangsiellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Kiangsiella distorta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
11 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Kiangsiella distorta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kiangsiella distorta and its relatives
PermianWhere Kiangsiella distorta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Chonetella nasuta8 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata8 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa8 sites
- Costiferina indica8 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis8 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica8 sites
- Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) cristata commixta8 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis7 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta7 sites
- Notothyris warthi7 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi7 sites
- Cleiothyridina grossula6 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata6 sites
- Spirigerella grandis6 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa6 sites
- Asperlinus asperulus5 sites
- Athyris5 sites
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata pinguis5 sites
- Hemiptychina crebriplicata5 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis5 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata5 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis5 sites
- Productus (Haydenella) kiangsiensis tumida5 sites
- Spirigerella obovata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Kiangsiella distorta, 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
2 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range9
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 32
Each of the 11 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 Kiangsiella distorta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kiangsiella distorta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKiangsiella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)