Desmoinesia nana
No picture of Desmoinesia nana 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 Desmoinesia nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmoinesiaPBDB
- 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 least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Desmoinesia nana 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
22 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
7 formations
- Krebs Formation · Cherokee Group14
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group3
- Cherokee Shale Formation1
- Flechado Formation1
- Bird Spring Formation1
- Four Corners Formation · Breathitt Group1
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The named rock units Desmoinesia nana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desmoinesia nana and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Desmoinesia nana and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
316 taxa- Derbyia crassa18 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina16 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus13 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma12 sites
- Mesolobus striatus12 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa11 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa11 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus11 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis10 sites
- Composita subtilita9 sites
- Hustedia mormoni7 sites
- Strobeus paludinaeformis6 sites
- Cymatospira montfortianus5 sites
- Linoproductus echinatus5 sites
- Neospirifer goreii5 sites
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis5 sites
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus5 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis5 sites
- Shansiella carbonaria5 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis5 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides4 sites
- Astartella concentrica4 sites
- Cleiothyridina orbicularis4 sites
- Kozlowskia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Desmoinesia nana, 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
7 references- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri14
- A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania3
- Arrow Canyon Nevada - A potential Mid-Carboniferous boundary stratotype1
- Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Taos area, north-central New Mexico1
- Macrofauna and fossil preservation in the Magoffin marine zone, Pennsylvanian Breathitt Formation of eastern Kentucky USA1
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas1
- Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy near Grand Ledge, Michigan1
Each of the 22 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 content0
No picture of Desmoinesia nana 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 Desmoinesia nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmoinesia nana 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 itDesmoinesia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1866)