Donaldina knighti
No picture of Donaldina knighti 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 knighti, 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.
4 occurrences of Donaldina knighti 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
4 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 knighti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donaldina knighti and its relatives
PermianWhere Donaldina knighti and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Donaldina gracilis4 sites
- Worthenia alticarinata4 sites
- Apachella prodontia3 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) parvicristus3 sites
- Bicuerda columnare3 sites
- Soleniscus variabilis3 sites
- Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus3 sites
- Worthenia latialveozona3 sites
- Ceraunocochlis kidderi2 sites
- Dictyotomaria marginata2 sites
- Discotomaria nodosa2 sites
- Euphemitopsis multinodosa2 sites
- Meekospira mimiae2 sites
- Metorthonema sinistrale2 sites
- Omphalotrochus obtusispira2 sites
- Orthonema tricingulatum2 sites
- Warthia crassus2 sites
- Yochelsonellisa eximia2 sites
- Amphiscapha proxima1 site
- Anomphalus vanescens1 site
- Apachella franciscana1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) huecoensis1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) oteroensis1 site
- Ceraunocochlis trekensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Donaldina knighti, 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 4 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 knighti 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 knighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donaldina knighti 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