Geniculifera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LevitusiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
22 occurrences of Geniculifera on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
22 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
7 formations
- Borden Formation10
- Chappel Limestone Formation6
- Heshilafu Formation2
- St. Joe Formation1
- Gancaohu Formation1
- Burlington Formation1
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The named rock units Geniculifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Geniculifera and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Geniculifera and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Crurithyris parva14 sites
- Ctenostoma sp.10 sites
- Graphiadactyllis10 sites
- Healdiidae10 sites
- Metriophyllum10 sites
- Anopliopsis9 sites
- Bairdia9 sites
- Tolypammina9 sites
- Brachythyris chouteauensis8 sites
- Nematopora8 sites
- Palaeacis8 sites
- Athyridida7 sites
- Cladochonus7 sites
- Flexibilia7 sites
- Inadunata7 sites
- Kirkbyella7 sites
- Ovatia7 sites
- Platycrinites7 sites
- Chonetidina6 sites
- Cyathocrinites6 sites
- Cyrtina burlingtonensis6 sites
- Eomartiniopsis girtyi6 sites
- Meilsonia ? sp.6 sites
- Nucleospira6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Geniculifera, 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
7 references- Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Basal New Providence Shale (Osagian: Mississippian) at Paris Landing, Tennessee10
- Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas6
- Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography.2
- Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK1
- Tournaisian-Visean brachiopods from the Gancaohu area of southern Tienshan Mountains, Xinjiang, NW China1
- Tournaisian (Early Osagean) brachiopods from a bioherm in the St. Joe Formation near Kenwood, Oklahoma1
- New genera and species of Early Mississippian brachiopods from the Burlington Limestone1
Each of the 22 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 Geniculifera 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 Geniculifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geniculifera 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 itLevitusini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.