Schellwienella alternata
No picture of Schellwienella alternata 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 Schellwienella alternata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchellwienellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Schellwienella alternata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
13 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Schellwienella alternata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schellwienella alternata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Schellwienella alternata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Unispirifer8 sites
- Verkhotomia8 sites
- Spirifer7 sites
- Marginatia5 sites
- Rhipidomella4 sites
- Cleiothyridina3 sites
- Stegacanthia3 sites
- Torynifer pseudolineatus3 sites
- Avonia2 sites
- Macropotamorhynchus2 sites
- Ovatia2 sites
- Rugosochonetes2 sites
- Tomiproductus2 sites
- Abrotocrinus1 site
- Aorocrinus1 site
- Athabascacrinus1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Beecheria chouteauensis1 site
- Blothocrinitidae indet.1 site
- Blothocrinus aff. spartarius1 site
- Blothocrinus sp.1 site
- Brachythyris chouteauensis1 site
- Cactocrinus1 site
- Calvustrigis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Schellwienella alternata, 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
2 references- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta12
- Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta1
Each of the 13 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 Schellwienella alternata 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 Schellwienella alternata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schellwienella alternata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSchellwienella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1914