Kirkbya firma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KirkbyaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Kirkbya firma 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kirkbya firma 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.
Kirkbya firma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kirkbya firma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- ? Carbonita tumida magna1 site
- Aechmina1 site
- Amphissites carinodus1 site
- Amphissites centronotus1 site
- Aurikirkbya canyonensis1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdia beedei1 site
- Bairdia crassa1 site
- Bairdia folgeri1 site
- Bairdia hooverae1 site
- Bairdia kansasensis1 site
- Basslerella1 site
- Cryptobairdia seminalis1 site
- Cyathus ulrichi1 site
- Fabalicypris glennensis1 site
- Fabalicypris hoxbarensis1 site
- Healdia cincta1 site
- Kellettella navicula1 site
- Kindlella minuta1 site
- Kirkbya clarocarinata1 site
- Kirkbya pergrandis1 site
- Kirkbyella1 site
- Knightina harltoni1 site
- Macrocypris menardensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kirkbya firma, 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- Upper Paleozoic ostracodes of the Harper Ranch beds (south-central British Columbia, Canada)1
- Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kansas: I. the Aparchitidae, Beyrichiidae, Glyptopleuridae, Kloedenellidae, Kirkbyiidae, and Youngiellidae1
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. 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 Kirkbya firma 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 Kirkbya firma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kirkbya firma 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 itKirkbya through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellett 1933