Alexenia gratiodentalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlexeniaPBDB
- 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 least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
8 occurrences of Alexenia gratiodentalis 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous13%
- Permian88%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Alexenia gratiodentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alexenia gratiodentalis and its relatives
PermianWhere Alexenia gratiodentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Cancrinella cancriniformis3 sites
- Choristites3 sites
- Echinoconchus mapingensis3 sites
- Krotovia pustulata3 sites
- Neochonetes (Neochonetes) carboniferus3 sites
- Buxtonia2 sites
- Callispirina ornata2 sites
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti2 sites
- Chonostegoidella longlinensis2 sites
- Chonostegoidella minor2 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa2 sites
- Dielasma indentum2 sites
- Eliva mignon2 sites
- Enteletes lamarckii2 sites
- Eomarginifera pusilla2 sites
- Krotovia nasuta2 sites
- Linoproductus simensis2 sites
- Marginifera2 sites
- Marginifera pusilla mapingensis2 sites
- Markamia transversa2 sites
- Martinia2 sites
- Martinia corculum2 sites
- Martinia manchuriensis2 sites
- Meekella striatocostata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Alexenia gratiodentalis, 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
5 references- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi3
- Uppermost Carboniferous brachiopods from western Guizhou2
- Brachiopoda1
- Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley1
- Early Permian fossils of China. I. early Permian brachiopods, pelecypods, and gastropods of Kweichow1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Alexenia gratiodentalis 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 Alexenia gratiodentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alexenia gratiodentalis 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 itAlexenia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grabau 1934)