Adolfia
Searched as Adolfia cf. biverrucosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Adolfia as the accepted name.
No picture of Adolfia 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 Adolfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AdolfiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 372.15 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Adolfia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Adolfia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Adolfia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Adolfia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
221 taxa- Athyris11 sites
- Cranaena8 sites
- Douvillina dutertrei8 sites
- Productella subaculeata8 sites
- Schizophoria striatula8 sites
- Spinatrypa8 sites
- Cyrtina7 sites
- Cyrtospirifer7 sites
- Eoschuchertella6 sites
- Longispina6 sites
- Ripidiorhynchus6 sites
- Cyrtospirifer verneuili5 sites
- Douvillina5 sites
- Gypidula5 sites
- Aulopora4 sites
- Desquamatia4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Nervostrophia latissima4 sites
- Spinatrypina4 sites
- Apousiella3 sites
- Athyris concentrica3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Disphyllum3 sites
- Eleutherokomma3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Adolfia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Adolfia 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 Adolfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Adolfia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAdolfiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gürich 1909