Flabellum hertleini

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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Flabellum hertleini on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Flabellum hertleini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Flabellum hertleini and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Flabellum hertleini and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Delectopecten3 sites
- Malletia3 sites
- Salenia schencki3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Acila2 sites
- Asteroidea indet.2 sites
- Chondrichthyes indet.2 sites
- Decapoda2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Erycina2 sites
- Fusitriton2 sites
- Fustiaria2 sites
- Isocrinus2 sites
- Isognomon2 sites
- Litorhadia2 sites
- Naticidae2 sites
- Nemocardium2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Osteichthyes indet.2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Propeamussium2 sites
- Scaphander2 sites
- Teredo2 sites
- Yoldia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Flabellum hertleini, 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
3 references- Exceptional crinoid occurrences and associated carbonates of the Keasey Formation (Early Oligocene) at Mist, Oregon, USA2
- The Echinoid genus Salenia in the Eastern Pacific1
- Eocene and Oligocene coral faunas of Washington1
Each of the 4 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 Flabellum hertleini
- 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 of Flabellum hertleini 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFlabellum through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1942