Geothomasia valida
No picture of Geothomasia valida 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 Geothomasia valida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeothomasiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Geothomasia valida 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Geothomasia valida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Geothomasia valida and its relatives
PermianWhere Geothomasia valida and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Ambikella ovata2 sites
- Acanthalosia domina1 site
- Anidanthus springsurensis1 site
- Atomodesmatinae1 site
- Costatumulus farleyensis1 site
- Deltopecten limaeformis1 site
- Eurydesma1 site
- Eurydesma hobartense1 site
- Homevalaria profunda1 site
- Lyropora1 site
- Megousia solita1 site
- Paraplatyschisma etheridgei1 site
- Paraplatyschisma rotunda1 site
- Stenopora crinita1 site
- Stenopora hirsuta1 site
- Stenopora ovata1 site
- Sulciplica tasmaniensis1 site
- Taeniothaerus1 site
- Taeniothaerus subquadratus1 site
- Terrakea dickinsi1 site
- Terrakea pollex1 site
- Trigonotreta australis1 site
- Trigonotreta hobartensis1 site
- Wyndhamia jukesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Geothomasia valida, 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
2 references- Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia1
- The fauna and age of Malbina A1
Each 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 Geothomasia valida 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 Geothomasia valida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geothomasia valida was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGeothomasia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campbell 1961)