Gacella
No picture of Gacella 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 Gacella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GacellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Gacella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician89%
- Silurian11%
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
5 formations
- Anderken Formation4
- Stinchar Formation2
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Confinis Formation · Barr Group1
- Roberts Mountains Formation1
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The named rock units Gacella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gacella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Gacella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Bimuria buttsi3 sites
- Laticrura pionodema3 sites
- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata3 sites
- Paurorthis fasciculata3 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus3 sites
- Christiania sulcata2 sites
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Isophragma extensum2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Palaeostrophomena angulata2 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi2 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis2 sites
- Ptychopleurella rectangulata2 sites
- Skenidioides costatus2 sites
- Taphrorthis peculiaris2 sites
- Aenigmastrophia cooperi1 site
- Alaskospira1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Anomalorthis1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Bartoninus dispersus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gacella, 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- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics4
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda3
- Aenigmastrophia, new genus, a difficult Silurian brachiopod1
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada1
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
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No picture of Gacella 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 Gacella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gacella 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 itGacellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1962