Sedgwickia topekaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SedgwickiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Sedgwickia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 8.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Sedgwickia topekaensis on record. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous50%
- Permian50%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sedgwickia topekaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Permophorus2 sites
- Amaurotoma subsinuata1 site
- Ananias1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Aviculopinna1 site
- Baylea supercrenata1 site
- Bellerophon cf. deflectus1 site
- Bellerophon graphicus1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Colpites monilifera1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Cymatospira montfortianus1 site
- Economolopsis anodontoides1 site
- Euphemites enodis1 site
- Gervillia longa1 site
- Glabrocingulum beedei1 site
- Goniasma lasallense1 site
- Hypergonia1 site
- Hypselentoma perhumerosa1 site
- Hystriculina wabashensis1 site
- Isogramma1 site
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma)1 site
- Linoproductus1 site
- Liroceras globulare1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sedgwickia topekaensis, 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- Marine invertebrate assemblages from the Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Holder Formation, Dry Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, south-central New Mexico1
- The Texan Permian and its Mesozoic types of fossils1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Sedgwickia topekaensis 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 Sedgwickia topekaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sedgwickia topekaensis 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 itSedgwickia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1860)