Alternifenestella spitzbergensis

No picture of Alternifenestella spitzbergensis 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 Alternifenestella spitzbergensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpinofenestellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 8.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283.3 Mya274.4 Mya290.6 Mya266.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Alternifenestella spitzbergensis 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

2 occurrences

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

Great Bear Cape — 77.36°N, 87.61°WKapp Starostin — 78.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Alternifenestella spitzbergensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Alternifenestella spitzbergensis and its relatives

Permian

Where Alternifenestella spitzbergensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alternifenestella spitzbergensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Alternifenestella spitzbergensis 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 Alternifenestella spitzbergensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alternifenestella spitzbergensis 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 itSpinofenestella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nikiforova 1936)