Sphenalosia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StrophalosiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
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 266.9 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermian267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267.4 Mya253.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Sphenalosia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

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

3 formations

Park City — 43.17°N, 109.17°WPark City — 42.25°N, 110.79°WRanger Canyon — 54.50°N, 120.72°WRanger Canyon — 53.70°N, 119.25°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°W

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

Sphenalosia and its relatives

Permian

Where Sphenalosia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphenalosia, 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

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 Sphenalosia 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 Sphenalosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenalosia 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 itStrophalosiinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960