Alipunctifera kaihikuana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlipunctiferaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Alipunctifera kaihikuana on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Port Molyneux Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
- Waituti Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
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The named rock units Alipunctifera kaihikuana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alipunctifera kaihikuana and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Alipunctifera kaihikuana and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Sakawairhynchia zealandica16 sites
- Athyris11 sites
- Fletcherina zealandica11 sites
- Mentzeliopsis9 sites
- Mentzeliopsis spinosa7 sites
- Daonella6 sites
- Spiriferina carolinae6 sites
- Balantioselena4 sites
- Maorirhynchia nuggetensis4 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis3 sites
- Aparimella apteryx2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Pleurotomariidae2 sites
- Adygella himalayana1 site
- Atractites otapiriensis1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Daonella (Arzelella) indica1 site
- Halorella1 site
- Lepidotrochus1 site
- Manticula problematica1 site
- Mentzeliopsis horrida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Alipunctifera kaihikuana, 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
3 references- Some faunas and formations of Kaihikuan Age (Middle Triassic) in the Murihiku Supergroup13
- Willsher Group and geology of the Triassic Kaka Point coastal section, south-east Otago, New Zealand2
- The Trias of New Zealand2
Each of the 17 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Alipunctifera kaihikuana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alipunctifera kaihikuana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAlipunctifera through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trechmann 1917)