Gabelia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 530.7 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 9 occurrencesSilurian — about 6 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 9 occurrences534–528 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences528–522 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences522–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–421 Mya — about 4 occurrences421–415 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences415–409 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya382.31 Mya534 Mya355 Mya

9 occurrences of Gabelia 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

9 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

3 formations

Roberts Mountains — 41.43°N, 114.94°WRoberts Mountains — 41.28°N, 116.07°WXistos com Nodulos — 38.13°N, 6.98°WHetang — 29.92°N, 118.08°E

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The named rock units Gabelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gabelia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Gabelia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gabelia, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 Gabelia 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 Gabelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gabelia 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 itProtospongiidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Murphy 1983