Draboviidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnteletoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 88 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
1,004 occurrences of Draboviidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1,004 occurrences- Ordovician58%
- Silurian28%
- Devonian15%
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
263 formations
- Tommarp Formation36
- Kuldiga Formation29
- Overton Formation28
- Solvik Formation24
- Roberts Mountain Formation23
- Kuanyinchiao Formation21
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The named rock units Draboviidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 239 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Draboviidae and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Draboviidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,933 taxa- Crinoidea52 sites
- Salopina46 sites
- Tentaculites45 sites
- Protochonetes ludloviensis44 sites
- Salopina lunata42 sites
- Leptaena39 sites
- Isorthis36 sites
- Atrypa34 sites
- Salopina conservatrix34 sites
- Lingula33 sites
- Howellella31 sites
- Craniops30 sites
- Bivalvia29 sites
- Bryozoa29 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina29 sites
- Skenidioides29 sites
- Pionodema28 sites
- Protochonetes28 sites
- Dalmanella27 sites
- Camarotoechia26 sites
- Nuculites25 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula23 sites
- Serpulites23 sites
- Hirnantia22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 776 sites for Draboviidae, and this reads 240 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
250 references- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia37
- Upper Ordovician Brachiopods from Västergötland, Sweden36
- The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of the East Baltic: Taxonomy of the key species32
- Pridolian and early Gedinnian age brachiopods from the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada31
- The relationship between sedimentary facies and faunal associations in the Llandovery siliclastic Ross Brook Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia28
- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England28
- Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California24
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia24
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area19
- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales15
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Garth area of southwest Powys, Wales15
- Brachiopod diversification during the Early–Mid Ordovician: an example from the Dawan Formation, Yichang area, central China12
Each of the 1,004 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. 238 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Draboviidae
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Draboviidae 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 itEnteletoidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1950