Emanuella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchospiriferinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
185 occurrences of Emanuella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
185 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
40 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group38
- Tully Formation · Tully Group13
- Pine Point Formation10
- Donggangling Formation9
- Dawson Bay Formation9
- Solonchatskaya Formation8
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The named rock units Emanuella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Emanuella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Emanuella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
377 taxa- Atrypa26 sites
- Spinatrypa26 sites
- Cyrtina19 sites
- Schizophoria17 sites
- Desquamatia13 sites
- Warrenella12 sites
- Gypidula11 sites
- Productella11 sites
- Thamnopora11 sites
- Athyris10 sites
- Coenites9 sites
- Proetus manitobensis9 sites
- Rugosa9 sites
- Belodella8 sites
- Ostracoda8 sites
- Spinulicosta8 sites
- Favosites7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Nucleospira7 sites
- Polygnathus7 sites
- Variatrypa7 sites
- Alveolites6 sites
- Aulopora6 sites
- Bensbergia altivolvis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Emanuella, 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
44 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York44
- Lower and Middle Devonian Brachiopod-Dominated Communities of Nevada, and Their Position in a Biofacies-Province-Realm Model12
- Fauna of the Manitoba Group, from Manitoba, Canada11
- Middle Devonian Brachiopods, Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Transgressive-Regressive Cycles, Pine Point Area, South of Great Slave Lake, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories10
- Brakhiopody opornogo razreza pogranichnykh otlozhenii srednego i verkhnego Devona na vostochnom sklone Yuzhnogo Urala [Brachiopods from the reference section of the Middle/Upper Devonian boundary deposits on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals]10
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected10
- Devonian Transgressive-Regressive Cycles and Biostratigraphy, Northern Antelope Range, Nevada: Establishment of Reference Horizons for Global Cycles7
- Devonian rocks of the Lake Winnipegosis - Lake Manitoba outcrop belt, Manitoba7
- Facies and Faunal Relations at Edge of Early Mid-Devonian Carbonate Shelf South Nahanni River Area, NWT7
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19886
- Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands6
- Faunal signatures of Middle-Upper Devonian depositional sequences and sea level fluctuations in the Iowa Basin: US Midcontinent5
Each of the 185 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. 32 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 Emanuella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Emanuella 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 itRhynchospiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1923