Finkelnburgia

Finkelnburgia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FinkelnburgiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 10 of 83 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 73 of 83 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 83 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 10 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 15 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 10 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 9 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 9 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 5 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 5 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 5 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497 Mya471.3 Mya508 Mya442 Mya

83 occurrences of Finkelnburgia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

83 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

40 formations

Watts Bight — 48.53°N, 58.75°WWatts Bight — 48.55°N, 58.73°WWatts Bight — 48.52°N, 58.48°WWatts Bight — 48.51°N, 58.99°WUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 118.00°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EChepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WEminence — 37.96°N, 90.77°WEminence — 37.17°N, 91.37°WEminence — 37.35°N, 90.97°WEminence — 37.04°N, 91.33°WBeauharnois — 45.29°N, 74.13°WBeauharnois — 45.25°N, 74.18°WKindblade — 34.92°N, 98.73°WKindblade — 34.38°N, 96.93°WKindblade — 34.42°N, 97.27°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WNanjinguan — 29.00°N, 109.00°ENanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EUgorskii — 60.00°N, 114.00°EUgorskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°ETochil’naya — 60.00°N, 116.00°ETochil’naya — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst'Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst'Kut — 67.55°N, 104.21°EGoodwin — 36.65°N, 116.17°WTribes Hill — 43.02°N, 74.74°WTribes Hill — 42.94°N, 74.29°WKochakan — 67.54°N, 104.17°ETanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WStonehenge Limestone — 39.63°N, 77.82°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WMeitan — 27.00°N, 107.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 109.00°EShangoucong — 32.00°N, 118.00°ETucumilla — 21.00°S, 65.00°W

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The named rock units Finkelnburgia 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. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Finkelnburgia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Finkelnburgia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

376 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Finkelnburgia, 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

39 references

Each of the 83 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. 27 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 Finkelnburgia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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. (Walcott 1905)