Flexifenestella

No picture of Flexifenestella 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 Flexifenestella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FenestellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 41 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 38 of 41 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence293–291 Mya — about 9 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 8 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 6 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 6 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 6 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.2 Mya274.4 Mya325 Mya266 Mya

41 occurrences of Flexifenestella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

41 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

9 formations

Bazardarin — 37.72°N, 74.54°EBazardarin — 37.89°N, 74.03°EBazardarin — 38.06°N, 74.06°EBazardarin — 38.08°N, 73.89°ENerminskaya — 67.05°N, 52.70°ENerminskaya — 66.97°N, 49.75°ETompinskaya — 63.75°N, 135.30°EVladivostok — 44.38°N, 131.70°EIlibeiskaya — 67.05°N, 52.70°ENordenskioldbreen — 78.48°N, 17.00°EJohns Valley — 34.50°N, 95.63°WWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°EMiddle Brachiopod Chert — 78.49°N, 16.79°E

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The named rock units Flexifenestella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flexifenestella and its relatives

Permian

Where Flexifenestella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Flexifenestella, 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

8 references

Each of the 41 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 Flexifenestella 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 Flexifenestella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Flexifenestella 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 itFenestellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morozova 1974