Kirkbya permiana

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

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 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermian338–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 3 occurrences330.3 Mya259.857 Mya338 Mya253 Mya

14 occurrences of Kirkbya permiana 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

14 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

4 formations

Naujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.82°N, 23.93°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.93°N, 23.28°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.78°N, 21.83°EFord — 54.97°N, 1.37°WKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EKapp Starostin — 77.01°N, 16.21°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Kirkbya permiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kirkbya permiana and its relatives

Permian

Where Kirkbya permiana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Kirkbya permiana, 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

4 references

Each of the 14 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 permiana 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 Kirkbya permiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kirkbya permiana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKirkbya through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jones 1850)