Orbicoelia magna

No picture of Orbicoelia magna 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 Orbicoelia magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbicoeliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPermian308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya274.4 Mya307.9 Mya258.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Orbicoelia magna 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

10 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

3 formations

Keziliqiman — 37.83°N, 76.80°EMaokou — 29.68°N, 109.07°EMaokou — 24.32°N, 113.21°ETahaqi — 37.00°N, 79.00°E

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

Orbicoelia magna and its relatives

Permian

Where Orbicoelia magna and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Orbicoelia magna, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 Orbicoelia magna 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 Orbicoelia magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orbicoelia magna 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 itOrbicoelia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ustritsky 1960)