Flabellum conoideum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
40 occurrences of Flabellum conoideum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
40 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
6 formations
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group17
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group10
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group8
- Naheola Formation · Midway Group3
- Clayton Formation1
- Sucarnochee Clay Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Flabellum conoideum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Flabellum conoideum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Flabellum conoideum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Dentalium13 sites
- Cucullaea12 sites
- Turritella12 sites
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis11 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mediavia10 sites
- Calyptraphorus9 sites
- Mesalia alabamiensis9 sites
- Pitar8 sites
- Natica7 sites
- Corbula6 sites
- Hercoglossa ulrichi6 sites
- Rotularia6 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Crassatella aquiana5 sites
- Jupiteria5 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)4 sites
- Euspira4 sites
- Orthosurcula4 sites
- Polinices eminulus4 sites
- Agaronia3 sites
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense3 sites
- Cadulus3 sites
- Exilia pergracilis3 sites
- Falsifusus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Flabellum conoideum, 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
7 references- The Midway Group of Texas12
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region9
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages7
- The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas7
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain2
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species2
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
Each of the 40 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 content0
No picture of Flabellum conoideum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Flabellum conoideum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flabellum conoideum 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 itFlabellum through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1900