Pragnellia
No picture of Pragnellia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Pragnellia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoccoseridicaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pragnellia 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
5 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
4 formations
- Fossil Hill Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Group2
- Daylesford Limestone Formation1
- Aleman Formation · Montoya Group1
- Tekhten Formation1
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The named rock units Pragnellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pragnellia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pragnellia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Coccoseris3 sites
- Bajgolia2 sites
- Cystistroma2 sites
- Eofletcheria2 sites
- Gorbyoceras2 sites
- Nyctopora2 sites
- Protozyga definitiva2 sites
- Quondongia alitis2 sites
- Stratodictyon2 sites
- Tetradium2 sites
- Troedssonella2 sites
- Australispira1 site
- Austraphylloporina sp.1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Billingsaria1 site
- Bowanorthis fragilis1 site
- Brachielasma cf. altaica1 site
- Brachyelasma altaica1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Cliefdenoceras gregarium1 site
- Cliefdenoceras sp.1 site
- Cyrtophyllum1 site
- Didymelasma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pragnellia, 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
4 references- Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia2
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications1
- Montoya and related colonial corals1
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
Media content0
No picture of Pragnellia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Pragnellia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pragnellia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCoccoseridicae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leith 1952