Costiferina thomasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostiferinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Costiferina thomasi 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
3 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
- Upper Marine Beds Formation · Port Keats Group2
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The named rock units Costiferina thomasi 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.
Costiferina thomasi and its relatives
PermianWhere Costiferina thomasi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Tomiopsis hardmani3 sites
- Waagenoconcha imperfecta3 sites
- Derbyia hardmani2 sites
- Latispirifer amplissimus2 sites
- Leptodus nobilis2 sites
- Waagenites2 sites
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Hustedia1 site
- Megasteges septentrionalis1 site
- Saeptathaerus reclinis1 site
- Stenoscisma1 site
- Terebratulidae1 site
- Wadispirifer grandis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Costiferina thomasi, 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- Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 5. The family Dictyoclostidae Stehli 19542
- Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 8: The Late Permian brachiopod fauna of the Kirkby Range Member, Canning Basin1
Each of the 3 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 Costiferina thomasi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Costiferina thomasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costiferina thomasi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCostiferina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Archbold 1985