Smittinella tatei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SmittinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
17 occurrences of Smittinella tatei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Sandford Limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Smittinella tatei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Smittinella tatei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Smittinella tatei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
181 taxa- Cellaria contigua14 sites
- Porina gracilis11 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis9 sites
- Ogiva concamerata8 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius8 sites
- Cellaria bicornis7 sites
- Cellaria rigida7 sites
- Didymosella larvalis7 sites
- Escharella elongata7 sites
- Foveolaria curdiensis7 sites
- Hippoporina burlingtoniensis7 sites
- Macropora7 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba7 sites
- Selenaria cupola7 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica6 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei6 sites
- Biflustra regularis6 sites
- Escharoides duplicata6 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata6 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons6 sites
- Tetraplaria australis6 sites
- Aechmella depressa5 sites
- Cellaria australis5 sites
- Cellaria myaringensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Smittinella tatei, 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- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria14
- Report on a collection of fossils from the Lakes Entrance shaft, Gippsland, Victoria2
- Middle Miocene limestone from King Island, Tasmania1
Each of the 17 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 Smittinella tatei 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 Smittinella tatei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Smittinella tatei 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 itSmittinella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tenison-Woods 1877)