Fletcherina zealandica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FletcherithyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
13 occurrences of Fletcherina zealandica on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
13 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
- Port Molyneux Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
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The named rock units Fletcherina zealandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fletcherina zealandica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Fletcherina zealandica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Sakawairhynchia zealandica12 sites
- Alipunctifera kaihikuana11 sites
- Athyris8 sites
- Mentzeliopsis7 sites
- Daonella6 sites
- Mentzeliopsis spinosa6 sites
- Spiriferina carolinae6 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis4 sites
- Balantioselena3 sites
- Maorirhynchia nuggetensis3 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Pleurotomariidae2 sites
- Adygella himalayana1 site
- Alipunctifera1 site
- Aparimella apteryx1 site
- Atractites otapiriensis1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Daonella (Arzelella) indica1 site
- Lepidotrochus1 site
- Lingularia polaris1 site
- Mentzeliopsis horrida1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Palaeoneilo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Fletcherina zealandica, 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- Some faunas and formations of Kaihikuan Age (Middle Triassic) in the Murihiku Supergroup10
- Willsher Group and geology of the Triassic Kaka Point coastal section, south-east Otago, New Zealand1
- Dagys, 19651
- The Trias of New Zealand1
Each of the 13 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fletcherina zealandica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 zealandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fletcherina zealandica 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 itFletcherithyris through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trechmann 1917)