Composita ovata

Composita ovata

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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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 286 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 56 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 54 of 56 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 56 occurrencesPermian367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 14 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 8 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–312 Mya — about 4 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 7 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya303.7 Mya367 Mya284 Mya

56 occurrences of Composita ovata 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

56 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

17 formations

Watahomigi — 36.50°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.30°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 36.01°N, 113.84°WWatahomigi — 35.80°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WWatahomigi — 36.14°N, 112.89°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.92°N, 107.34°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 45.75°N, 112.00°WBird Spring — 36.27°N, 115.43°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WBird Spring — 34.51°N, 115.42°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.26°N, 93.93°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCuchillo Negro — 32.78°N, 107.27°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WHarpersville — 31.50°N, 99.37°WFra Cristobal — 32.78°N, 107.27°WApodaca — 32.78°N, 107.27°WElephant Butte — 33.20°N, 107.32°WIllipah — 38.65°N, 113.97°WElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WBelden Shale — 39.18°N, 106.16°WFort Scott — 37.42°N, 94.93°WEtoucun — 25.83°N, 109.03°ECasper — 41.32°N, 105.58°W

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The named rock units Composita ovata 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.

Composita ovata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Composita ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

325 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Composita ovata, 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

18 references

Each of the 56 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. 6 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 Composita ovata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mather 1915)