Qingyenia spinosa

No picture of Qingyenia spinosa 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 Qingyenia spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QingyeniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244.9 Mya240.96 Mya

11 occurrences of Qingyenia spinosa on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

11 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

1 formation

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°E

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

Qingyenia spinosa and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Qingyenia spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Qingyenia spinosa, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 Qingyenia spinosa 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 Qingyenia spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Qingyenia spinosa 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 itQingyenia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yang and Xu 1966