Cavellina sphenoformis
No picture of Cavellina sphenoformis 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 Cavellina sphenoformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavellinaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Platycopida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cavellina sphenoformis 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Cavellina sphenoformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cavellina sphenoformis and its relatives
PermianWhere Cavellina sphenoformis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acratia zhongyingensis1 site
- Bairdia menardensis1 site
- Bairdia ziguiensis1 site
- Bairdiacypris longirobusta1 site
- Basslerella ovata1 site
- Basslerella shaxianensis1 site
- Coelonella longula1 site
- Cyathus caperata1 site
- Cyathus formosus1 site
- Microcheilinella postspinosa1 site
- Microcheilinella venusta1 site
- Orthobairdia insolens1 site
- Paraparchitella ovata1 site
- Paraparchites fabula1 site
- Paraparchites inornatus1 site
- Shleesha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cavellina sphenoformis, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cavellina sphenoformis 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 Cavellina sphenoformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cavellina sphenoformis 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 itCavellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yi 1990