Donaldina gracilis
No picture of Donaldina gracilis 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 Donaldina gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonaldinaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Donaldina gracilis 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
5 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
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The named rock units Donaldina gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donaldina gracilis and its relatives
PermianWhere Donaldina gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Worthenia alticarinata5 sites
- Apachella prodontia4 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) parvicristus4 sites
- Bicuerda columnare4 sites
- Donaldina knighti4 sites
- Soleniscus variabilis4 sites
- Dictyotomaria marginata3 sites
- Euphemitopsis multinodosa3 sites
- Meekospira mimiae3 sites
- Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus3 sites
- Worthenia latialveozona3 sites
- Yochelsonellisa eximia3 sites
- Anomphalus vanescens2 sites
- Apachella franciscana2 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) huecoensis2 sites
- Ceraunocochlis kidderi2 sites
- Dichostasia simplex2 sites
- Discotomaria nodosa2 sites
- Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) diablo2 sites
- Glyptospira turrita2 sites
- Metorthonema sinistrale2 sites
- Omphalotrochus obtusispira2 sites
- Orthonema tricingulatum2 sites
- Warthia crassus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Donaldina gracilis, 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 referenceEach of the 5 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
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No picture of Donaldina gracilis 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 Donaldina gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donaldina gracilis 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 itDonaldina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erwin 1988