Gefonia mimicusa
No picture of Gefonia mimicusa 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 Gefonia mimicusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GefoniaPBDB
- 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 most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gefonia mimicusa 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gefonia mimicusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gefonia mimicusa and its relatives
PermianWhere Gefonia mimicusa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Alphaneospirifer anshunensis1 site
- Alphaneospirifer mucronata1 site
- Cathayspirina fenshuijiangensis1 site
- Compressoproductus compressus1 site
- Compressoproductus corniformis1 site
- Compressoproductus fengshuijiangensis1 site
- Costiferina sinoindica1 site
- Cyrolexis enneaplicata1 site
- Cyrolexis octoplicata1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Derbyia rudicula1 site
- Dicystoconcha lapparenti1 site
- Edriosteges poyangensis1 site
- Enteletes1 site
- Enteletes gibbosus1 site
- Enteletes kayseri1 site
- Enteletes retardata1 site
- Enteletes tschernyscheffi1 site
- Gefonia warthiformis1 site
- Genuspirifer tongluensis1 site
- Haydenella kiangsiensis1 site
- Haydenella zhejiangensis1 site
- Juxathyris abrupta1 site
- Juxathyris apionucula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gefonia mimicusa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gefonia mimicusa 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 Gefonia mimicusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gefonia mimicusa 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 itGefonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liang 1990