Centronella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CentronellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 58 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 351.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 342.9 Mya.
28 occurrences of Centronella 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
28 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
15 formations
- Ludlowville Formation3
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group3
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Onondaga Formation2
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group2
- Stooping River Formation2
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The named rock units Centronella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Centronella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Centronella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
424 taxa- Camarotoechia8 sites
- Crinoidea8 sites
- Atrypa reticularis7 sites
- Bryozoa7 sites
- Favosites7 sites
- Schuchertella7 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides6 sites
- Eldredgeops rana6 sites
- Meristella6 sites
- Pleurodictyum6 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana6 sites
- Spirifer6 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)6 sites
- Tentaculites6 sites
- Actinopteria5 sites
- Ambocoelia5 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata5 sites
- Chonetes5 sites
- Douvillina5 sites
- Elita5 sites
- Elita fimbriata5 sites
- Megastrophia5 sites
- Pholidostrophia5 sites
- Platyostoma lineata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Centronella, 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
21 references- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna2
- The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York2
- Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform. Part I: stratigraphy and economic geology2
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania2
- A Faunal Study of the Beechwood Limestone (Middle Devonian); Speed, Indiana2
- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York2
- Tully Formation of New York2
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York1
- Map and table describing fossil collections and related samples in the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert Quadrangles, southeastern Alaska1
- Paleoecology of the Oriskany Sandstone and equivalents of the Appalachian Basin1
- Devonian Brachiopod Biostratigraphy of New York State1
- Devonian strata of the Hudson Platform1
Each of the 28 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. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Centronella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Centronella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCentronellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1859