Kukersella borealis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KukersellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
14 occurrences of Kukersella borealis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
8 formations
- Cystoid Limestone Formation7
- Slade and Redhill Mudstone Formation1
- Jifarah Formation1
- Gabian Formation1
- Glauzy Formation1
- Uggwa Formation1
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The named rock units Kukersella borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kukersella borealis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kukersella borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Calloporella3 sites
- Chasmatopora hypnoides3 sites
- Ulrichostylus radiatus3 sites
- Dekayia2 sites
- Eridotrypa2 sites
- Hallopora2 sites
- Hallopora elegantula2 sites
- Heterotrypa2 sites
- Matsutrypa rogeri2 sites
- Moyerella2 sites
- Amplexopora1 site
- Anaphragma1 site
- Anaphragma dnestrense1 site
- Atactoporella1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Bythopora1 site
- Ceramopora1 site
- Ceramoporella distincta1 site
- Corynotrypa1 site
- Crassalina1 site
- Cryptostomata1 site
- Dybowskites1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
- Glauconomella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Kukersella borealis, 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
6 references- The upper Katian (Ordovician) bryozoans from the Eastern Iberian Chains (NE Spain)7
- Upper Ordovician bryozoa from the Montagne de Noire, Southern France3
- Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia1
- Bryozoan mud-mounds from the Upper Ordovician Jifarah (Djeffara) Formation of Tripolitania, north-west Libya1
- Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, Northern India)1
- A new Upper-Ordovician bryozoan fauna from the Slade & Red Hill beds, South Wales1
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
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No picture of Kukersella borealis 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 Kukersella borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kukersella borealis 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 itKukersella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1911