Figularia figularis

R. de Ruijter · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- FigulariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
11 occurrences of Figularia figularis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrences- Miocene64%
- Pliocene27%
- Pleistocene9%
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 Figularia figularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Figularia figularis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Figularia figularis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Onychocella angulosa9 sites
- Ceriopora palmata7 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa7 sites
- Calloporina decorata6 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata6 sites
- Escharoides coccinea6 sites
- Microporella ciliata6 sites
- Myriapora truncata6 sites
- Schizotheca fissa6 sites
- Calpensia nobilis5 sites
- Chorizopora brongniartii5 sites
- Costazia costazi5 sites
- Crassimarginatella bobiesi5 sites
- Escharina vulgaris5 sites
- Escharoides megalota5 sites
- Therenia montenati5 sites
- Turbicellepora coronopus5 sites
- Adeonella polystomella4 sites
- Buffonellaria entomostoma4 sites
- Colletosia radiata4 sites
- Hagiosynodos latus4 sites
- Hippopleurifera surgens4 sites
- Mollia patellaria4 sites
- Puellina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Figularia figularis, 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
5 references- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)7
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
- Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, Algeria1
Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Figularia figularis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- R. de Ruijter
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Figularia figularis 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 itFigularia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnston 1847)