Multicostella

Multicostella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlaesiomyinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 147 of 147 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 147 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 6 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 6 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 6 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 9 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 9 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 9 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 9 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 9 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.1 Mya449.5 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

147 occurrences of Multicostella 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

147 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

36 formations

Benbolt — 36.72°N, 82.68°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.95°N, 73.38°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°WUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.49°ECopenhagen — 39.98°N, 116.27°WCopenhagen — 39.20°N, 116.25°WCopenhagen — 38.82°N, 116.50°WCopenhagen — 39.23°N, 116.41°WLebanon — 36.08°N, 86.03°WLebanon — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.18°WLebanon — 36.01°N, 86.42°WBenbolt-Wardell — 36.35°N, 83.42°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WLaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WLaval — 47.00°N, 72.00°WLaval — 45.48°N, 73.90°WCarters — 35.81°N, 86.13°WWardell — 36.98°N, 81.93°WKrivaya Luka — 57.00°N, 106.00°EKrivaya Luka — 60.00°N, 114.00°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBarrel Spring — 37.00°N, 118.00°WBarrel Spring — 36.95°N, 118.08°WStinchar — 55.21°N, 4.78°WStinchar — 55.26°N, 4.30°WDay Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WCrown Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WWhitesburg — 35.96°N, 83.92°WLantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°WLiberty Hall — 38.53°N, 78.60°WValcour — 50.20°N, 63.50°WLebanon Limestone — 35.48°N, 86.45°WLengshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°E

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The named rock units Multicostella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Multicostella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Multicostella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Multicostella, 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

27 references

Each of the 147 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. 15 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 Multicostella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.