Fenestella plebeja
unknown · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FenestellaPBDB
- 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 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Fenestella plebeja 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous50%
- Permian50%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fenestella plebeja has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fenestella plebeja and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Fenestella plebeja and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Archegonus (Phillibole)1 site
- Archimedes1 site
- Coleolus1 site
- Crossopodia1 site
- Dimorphoceras1 site
- Dolorthoceras1 site
- Dyscritella sparsigemmata1 site
- Fenestella angusta1 site
- Fenestella elegantissima1 site
- Fenestella veneris1 site
- Goniatites sphaericostriatus1 site
- Hibernicoceras1 site
- Hibernicoceras mediocre1 site
- Kochiproductus porrectus1 site
- Laevidentalium1 site
- Leiorhynchus1 site
- Lingula carbonaria1 site
- Palaeoneilo1 site
- Phyllopora borealis1 site
- Polypora biarmica1 site
- Polypora martis1 site
- Polyporella micropora1 site
- Posidonia becheri1 site
- Proleptochiton laterodepressus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fenestella plebeja, 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
2 references- New finds of trilobites in the Culm of the Drahanska vrchovina Upland (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)1
- Obercarbonfauna von Konig Oscars und Heibergs Land1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Fenestella plebeja
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- unknown
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fenestella plebeja 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.
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What may have been alongside itFenestella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1844