Etherella

No picture of Etherella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Etherella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexagonellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–259 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274.4 Mya264.28 Mya290.7 Mya259.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Etherella 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

8 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

4 formations

Chandalaz — 43.26°N, 132.26°EChandalaz — 43.25°N, 132.00°EPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.72°EPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.57°EBarabash — 44.45°N, 131.40°EBarabash — 44.42°N, 131.33°EZhongba — 29.74°N, 84.32°E

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The named rock units Etherella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Etherella and its relatives

Permian

Where Etherella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Etherella, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 content0

No picture of Etherella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Etherella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Etherella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHexagonellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.