Composita globosa
Collector(s): Leigh Margaret Fall · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 339.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Composita globosa on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
14 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
3 formations
- Edwardsville Formation11
- Ramp Creek Formation1
- Livingstone Formation · Rundle Group1
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The named rock units Composita globosa 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 globosa and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Composita globosa and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Camerata10 sites
- Cheilotrypa10 sites
- Cladochonus beecheri10 sites
- Cleiothyridina10 sites
- Inadunata10 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis9 sites
- Bryozoa9 sites
- Crinoidea9 sites
- Cystodictya9 sites
- Fenestella9 sites
- Fistulipora9 sites
- Penniretepora9 sites
- Phractopora9 sites
- Platyceras9 sites
- Punctospirifer9 sites
- Rhombopora9 sites
- Rugosochonetes9 sites
- Thamniscus9 sites
- Thuramminoides9 sites
- Tolypammina9 sites
- Tylothyris9 sites
- Athyris lamellosa8 sites
- Barycrinus8 sites
- Cladochonus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Composita globosa, 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
5 references- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)10
- New Asteropyginae (Trilobita) from the Devonian of Afghanistan1
- Two boring organisms in a Lower Mississippian community of southern Indiana1
- Depositional History of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone (Mississippian) Kinser Pike Section, Monroe County, Indiana1
- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta1
Each of the 14 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
Media content1
Picture of Composita globosa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collector(s): Leigh Margaret Fall
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Composita globosa 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 itComposita through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1914