Ctenalosia fixata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenalosiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- 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.
75 occurrences of Ctenalosia fixata 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
75 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
4 formations
- Gerster Formation · Park City Group62
- Word Formation8
- Cherry Canyon Formation3
- Bell Canyon Formation2
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The named rock units Ctenalosia fixata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ctenalosia fixata and its relatives
PermianWhere Ctenalosia fixata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
435 taxa- Bryozoa50 sites
- Xestotrema pulchrum49 sites
- Echinauris subhorrida44 sites
- Crinoidea40 sites
- Composita mira38 sites
- Grandaurispina34 sites
- Cleiothyridina26 sites
- Hustedia elongata23 sites
- Derbyia sulca22 sites
- Dielasma phosphoriensis20 sites
- Bathymyonia nevadensis18 sites
- Pectinoidea15 sites
- Quadrochonetes15 sites
- Sphenosteges hispidus14 sites
- Meekella skenoides11 sites
- Yakovlevia multistriata11 sites
- Plectelasma10 sites
- Rugosa10 sites
- Xenosteges quadratus10 sites
- Derbyia pannucia9 sites
- Composita enormis8 sites
- Composita parasulcata8 sites
- Derbyia filosa8 sites
- Derbyia texta8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Ctenalosia fixata, 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
2 references- The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah62
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI13
Each of the 75 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ctenalosia fixata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ctenalosia fixata 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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What may have been alongside itCtenalosia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Stehli 1955