Dunbarella

Dunbarella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterinopectininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 72 of 78 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 78 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 78 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–332 Mya — about 10 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 5 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 12 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 3 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–306 Mya — about 4 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 16 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 14 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence330.3 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

78 occurrences of Dunbarella 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

78 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

20 formations

Wild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.65°N, 2.65°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.58°N, 2.43°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.70°N, 2.30°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.72°N, 2.08°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WGraham — 33.25°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WBentham Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°WSenja — 29.45°N, 83.00°ESenja — 29.60°N, 82.83°EWargal — 32.42°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°ESecond Abden Limestone — 56.20°N, 3.13°WCherokee Shale — 37.55°N, 94.66°WRoeburndale — 54.03°N, 2.68°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WMojon de Hierro — 44.53°S, 70.02°WGlenshaw — 40.95°N, 78.99°WQixia — 24.97°N, 107.40°EFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°WCarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WCaddo Creek — 33.25°N, 98.09°WMadera — 35.00°N, 106.34°W

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The named rock units Dunbarella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dunbarella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dunbarella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Dunbarella, 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

26 references

Each of the 78 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. 14 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 Dunbarella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dunbarella 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 itPterinopectininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newell 1938)