Fletcheria

Fletcheria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FletcheriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 18 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 26 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 12 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457.3 Mya387.95 Mya473 Mya381 Mya

26 occurrences of Fletcheria on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

26 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

13 formations

Daylesford Limestone — 33.32°S, 148.82°ELebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WGower — 41.51°N, 90.58°WLouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WKeyser Limestone — 38.00°N, 80.00°WMosquito Point — 43.00°N, 76.00°WCowombat — 36.00°S, 147.00°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°ELalong — 34.67°N, 104.83°EHeceta — 55.83°N, 133.58°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.30°N, 73.31°W

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The named rock units Fletcheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fletcheria and its relatives

Silurian

Where Fletcheria and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

389 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Fletcheria, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is 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 Fletcheria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fletcheria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851