Squamaria moorei
Collector(s): Barry Stephen Kues, Spencer G. Lucas · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SquamariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Squamaria moorei 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
7 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Squamaria moorei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Squamaria moorei and its relatives
PermianWhere Squamaria moorei and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Crinoidea7 sites
- Orbicoelia tumibilis6 sites
- Septimyalina burmai6 sites
- Bellerophontoidea5 sites
- Composita bucculenta5 sites
- Echinoidea5 sites
- Euphemitopsis multinodosa5 sites
- Girtopinna peracuta5 sites
- Wilkingia terminale5 sites
- Aviculopecten4 sites
- Omphalotrochus obtusispira4 sites
- Septopora4 sites
- Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus4 sites
- Subulitidae4 sites
- Aviculopecten arctisulcatus3 sites
- Bakevellia sulcata3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Dielasma hessense3 sites
- Euphemites3 sites
- Euphemitinae3 sites
- Fistulipora3 sites
- Naticopsis (Naticopsis)3 sites
- Patellilabia3 sites
- Polypora3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Squamaria moorei, 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 fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico6
- Early Permian (Wolfcampian) marine invertebrate assemblage from the Hueco Group, Shalem Colony Formation, Dona Ana Mountains, New Mexico1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Squamaria moorei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collector(s): Barry Stephen Kues, Spencer G. Lucas
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Squamaria moorei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSquamaria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960