Ferganella

Ferganella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MachaerariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 68 occurrencesSilurian — about 58 of 68 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 68 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 68 occurrences446–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 12 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 22 occurrences430–425 Mya — about 13 occurrences425–420 Mya — about 10 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences303–298 Mya — about 3 occurrences298–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences438.6 Mya293.52 Mya446 Mya287 Mya

68 occurrences of Ferganella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

68 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

33 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WDouro — 73.93°N, 92.10°WDouro — 72.98°N, 91.66°WDouro — 72.82°N, 92.02°WDouro — 72.59°N, 93.77°WVazhnan — 31.78°N, 52.13°EGrenzland — 46.57°N, 13.23°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ELaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRead Bay — 73.25°N, 93.50°WPentamerus Beds — 52.60°N, 2.55°WCordell — 46.19°N, 84.83°WYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°EWutubulake — 46.82°N, 66.62°EHogklint Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EMulde Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°ERoad River — 65.00°N, 136.00°WKabanka — 56.00°N, 60.00°ERacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°W

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The named rock units Ferganella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ferganella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ferganella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

637 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Ferganella, 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

27 references

Each of the 68 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. 15 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 Ferganella

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikiforova 1937