Furnishina furnishi

Heinsalu, Heljo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FurnishinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 497 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
38 occurrences of Furnishina furnishi on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
38 occurrences- Cambrian92%
- Ordovician8%
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
- Fengshan Formation11
- Huaqiao Formation7
- Kushan Formation3
- Ladoga Formation2
- Kamlak Formation2
- Gorge Formation1
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The named rock units Furnishina furnishi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Furnishina furnishi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Furnishina furnishi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Phakelodus tenuis19 sites
- Prooneotodus17 sites
- Teridontus nakamurai11 sites
- Eoconodontus notchpeakensis10 sites
- Prooneotodus gallatini10 sites
- Diaphanodus9 sites
- Cordylodus proavus8 sites
- Proconodontus muelleri8 sites
- Westergaardodina6 sites
- Cambrooistodus5 sites
- Mictosaukia5 sites
- Rotundoconus5 sites
- Calvinella4 sites
- Phakelodus4 sites
- Proconodontus4 sites
- Clavohamulus anciensis3 sites
- Diaphanodus compressus3 sites
- Mictosaukia orientalis3 sites
- Teridontus3 sites
- Westergaardodina bicuspidata3 sites
- Acrocephalina lata2 sites
- Coelocerodontus2 sites
- Cordylodus2 sites
- Cordylodus intermedius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Furnishina furnishi, 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
12 references- The recommended Cambrian - Ordovician global Boundry stratotype of the Xiaoyangqiao section (Dayangcha, Jilin Province), China14
- Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida7
- Upper Cambrian trilobites from Tangshan, Hebei Province, North China7
- Late Cambrian radiolarian faunas and biostratigraphy of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland2
- Taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Lotagnostus (Agnostida: Agnostidae) and associated trilobites and conodonts in the Upper Cambrian (Furongian) of Laurentia1
- Early Ordovician conodonts from the Santa Rosita Formation at Pantipampa, Iruya area, northwestern Argentina1
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area1
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China1
- Uppermost Cambrian slope deposits at Highgate Gorge, Vermont: a minor miscorrelation with major consequences for conodont - and trilobite - based chronocorrelation1
- The acrotretacean brachiopod Ceratreta tanneri (Metzger) from the Upper Cambrian of Baltoscandia1
Each of the 38 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 Furnishina furnishi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Heinsalu, Heljo
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Furnishina furnishi 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 itFurnishina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1959