Composita emarginata

Composita emarginata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CompositaPBDB
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 least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 40 of 40 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 4 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 4 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266.9 Mya259.857 Mya274.9 Mya253.6 Mya

40 occurrences of Composita emarginata 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

40 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

5 formations

Bell Canyon — 31.97°N, 104.75°WBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.75°WBell Canyon — 31.77°N, 104.89°WBell Canyon — 31.82°N, 104.77°WBell Canyon — 31.98°N, 104.75°WCapitan — 31.99°N, 104.76°WCapitan — 31.92°N, 104.82°WCapitan — 32.02°N, 104.73°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.56°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WWord — 30.41°N, 103.11°WWord — 30.36°N, 103.22°WPalo Quemado — 26.35°N, 102.94°WBrushy Canyon — 31.84°N, 104.84°W

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The named rock units Composita emarginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Composita emarginata and its relatives

Permian

Where Composita emarginata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Composita emarginata, 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

4 references

Each of the 40 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. 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

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Picture of Composita emarginata

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No 3D scan of Composita emarginata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)