Knightina

Knightina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KnightinidaePBDB
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 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 80 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 80 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 70 of 80 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 80 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 11 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 8 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 7 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 17 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 9 occurrences346.7 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya249 Mya

80 occurrences of Knightina 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

80 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

35 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°ENesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°EWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WWreford — 38.37°N, 96.59°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.91°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.84°WFort Riley — 38.21°N, 96.92°WFort Riley — 39.06°N, 96.79°WTak Fa — 15.92°N, 100.93°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°EWinfield — 37.68°N, 97.01°WWinfield — 38.42°N, 96.82°WKhuff — 21.04°N, 57.69°EKhuff — 19.95°N, 57.36°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WArqov — 31.97°N, 34.87°EArqov — 31.38°N, 35.37°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EStanton — 39.00°N, 95.05°WStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WElmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WNagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°EMaokou — 32.62°N, 105.86°EHayden Branch — 39.16°N, 87.52°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EBellerophon — 46.57°N, 11.63°EFlorena — 38.37°N, 96.53°WNeva — 38.37°N, 96.62°WLercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°EYinkeng — 31.08°N, 119.70°EGrenzland — 46.58°N, 13.18°EChase — 38.27°N, 96.73°W

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The named rock units Knightina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Knightina and its relatives

Permian

Where Knightina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Knightina, 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

22 references

Each of the 80 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Knightina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itKnightinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellett 1933