Flabellia

Channer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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.
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
7 occurrences of Flabellia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Flabellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Flabellia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Flabellia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Alveolites4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Ostracoda4 sites
- Thamnopora4 sites
- Thamnophyllum3 sites
- Allonema silurica2 sites
- Alveolites (Tetralites) praetenuissimus parvicorallitus2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Brachiopoda indet.2 sites
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Girvanella problematica2 sites
- Givetianella tsienii2 sites
- Mastopora compacta2 sites
- Mesophyllum2 sites
- Platyaxum2 sites
- Rothpletzella2 sites
- Sociophyllum2 sites
- Solenoporaceae2 sites
- Squameoalveolites strigosus cusanorum2 sites
- Stringophyllum2 sites
- Stromatoporella2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Flabellia, 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- Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)3
- Paleoecology of upper Eifelian and lower Givetian coral limestones in the northwestern Sauerland (Devonian; Rhenish Massif)2
- Ecology of Early Devonian reefs in the Western Urals, Russia1
- Korallenfauna und Fazies givetischer Kalksteinabfolgen (Cuerten-/Dreimühlen-Formation) der Dollendorfer Mulde (Devon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge/Eifel)1
Each of the 7 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 Flabellia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Channer
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Flabellia 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shuysky 1973