Fletcherina incognita
No picture of Fletcherina incognita 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 Fletcherina incognita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FletcherinaPBDB
- 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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fletcherina incognita 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
2 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
2 formations
- Keyser Limestone Formation1
- Coeymans Formation · Helderberg Group1
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The named rock units Fletcherina incognita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fletcherina incognita and its relatives
SilurianWhere Fletcherina incognita and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Auloporidae1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cystihalysites1 site
- Embolophyllum1 site
- Entellophylloides inequalils1 site
- Entellophylloides sp. n. sp.1 site
- Favositidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Kodonophyllidae1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Pseudoblothrophyllum helderbergium1 site
- Pseudoblothrophyllum munnsvillium1 site
- Siphonophretis variabilis1 site
- Stauromatidium1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Tryplasma1 site
- Tryplasma fascicularium1 site
- Zelophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fletcherina incognita, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The principal Pridolian and Lochkovian rugose coral assemblages or communities in eastern North America1
- Rugose Corals from Reef Limestones in the Lower Devonian of New York1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fletcherina incognita 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 Fletcherina incognita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fletcherina incognita 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFletcherina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oliver 1960