Virgiana mayvillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VirgianaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Virgiana mayvillensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
8 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Virgiana mayvillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Virgiana mayvillensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Virgiana mayvillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Rugosa5 sites
- <favositid>4 sites
- Catenipora2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Tabulata2 sites
- Actinoceras lesperancei1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heliolitidae1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Virgiana mayvillensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Evolution of Silurian Pentamerid Communities in Wisconsin5
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian pentamerid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada2
- Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) boundary1
Each of the 8 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 Virgiana mayvillensis 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 Virgiana mayvillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Virgiana mayvillensis 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 itVirgiana through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Savage 1916)