Modestella geinitzi
No picture of Modestella geinitzi 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 Modestella geinitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ModestellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Modestella geinitzi 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Modestella geinitzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Modestella geinitzi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Modestella geinitzi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Capillithyris squamosa1 site
- Concinnithyris subundata1 site
- Corynella foraminosa1 site
- Corynella tetragona1 site
- Cyclothyris1 site
- Elasmostoma consobrinum1 site
- Elasmostoma normanianum1 site
- Kingena concinna1 site
- Nautilus triangularis1 site
- Pachytilodia infundibuliformis1 site
- Peronella furcata1 site
- Peronella ramosissima1 site
- Raphidonema stellatum1 site
- Synopella sphaerica1 site
- Terebratulina etheridgei1 site
- Terebratulina imbricata1 site
- Terebratulina protostriatula1 site
- Thecidiopsis1 site
- Tremacystia cribrosa1 site
- Tremacystia dorbignyi1 site
- Tremacystia michelinii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Modestella geinitzi, 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- Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe4
- Brachiopods from the Sanadinovo Formation (Lower Cenomanian) in northern Bulgaria1
Each of the 5 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 Modestella geinitzi 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 Modestella geinitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modestella geinitzi 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 itModestella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schloenbach 1866)