Kingena mesembrina
No picture of Kingena mesembrina 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 Kingena mesembrina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Kingena mesembrina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Gingin Formation13
- Santa Marta Formation · Marambio Group1
- Gingin Chalk Formation1
- Toolonga Calcilutite Formation1
- Toolonga Chalk Formation1
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The named rock units Kingena mesembrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kingena mesembrina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kingena mesembrina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Bouchardiella cretacea14 sites
- Inopinatarcula acanthodes13 sites
- Gisilina ovata10 sites
- Liothyrella archboldi8 sites
- Tegulorhynchia hrodelberti8 sites
- Eohemithyris wildei6 sites
- Protegulorhynchia meridionalis6 sites
- Zenobiathyris plicatilis6 sites
- Zenobiathyris mutabilis5 sites
- Protegulorhynchia bevanorum2 sites
- Terebratulidae2 sites
- Calantica (Scillaelepas) ginginensis1 site
- Capillithyris1 site
- Caryophyllia konincki1 site
- Ceratotrochus ginginensis1 site
- Loriculina fosteri1 site
- Octocorallia1 site
- Pachyscalpellum glauerti1 site
- Pachyteichisma corrugatus1 site
- Peronidella globosa1 site
- Terebratulida1 site
- Verruca (Verruca) tasmanica tasmanica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Kingena mesembrina, 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- Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Perth and Carnarvon Basins, Western Australia16
- Cretaceous brachiopods from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and their paleobiogeographic affinities1
Each of the 17 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 Kingena mesembrina 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 Kingena mesembrina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kingena mesembrina 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 itKingena through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Etheridge 1913)