Comelicania megalotis
No picture of Comelicania megalotis 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 Comelicania megalotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ComelicaniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Comelicania megalotis 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- 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 Comelicania megalotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Comelicania megalotis and its relatives
PermianWhere Comelicania megalotis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Comelicania haueri3 sites
- Bellerophon1 site
- Comelicania merlai1 site
- Foordiceras dolomiticum1 site
- Liroceras gardenense1 site
- Schizodus1 site
- Tainoceras balestense1 site
- Tirolonautilus sebedinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Comelicania megalotis, 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
2 references- The gen. Comelicania Frech, 1901 (Brachiopoda) from the southern Alps: morphology and classification7
- Orizzonti a nautiloidi e a brachiopodi della formazione a Bellerophon (Permiano Superiore) in Val Gardena (Dolomiti) [Nautiloidea and brachiopoda horizons in the Upper Permian Bellerophon Formation in the Gardena Valley (Dolomites)]1
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
Media content0
No picture of Comelicania megalotis 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 Comelicania megalotis, 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 itComelicania through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stache 1878)