Defordia digitata

No picture of Defordia digitata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Defordia digitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DefordiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At most 8.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Permian — about 1 of 1 occurrencePermian283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283.8 Mya273.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Defordia digitata 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

1 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

1 formation

Palmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°W

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The named rock units Defordia digitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Defordia digitata and its relatives

Permian

Where Defordia digitata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Defordia digitata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Defordia digitata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Defordia digitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itDefordia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1984