Gigantella
No picture of Gigantella 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 Gigantella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProductellinaePBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
19 occurrences of Gigantella 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
19 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Gigantella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gigantella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gigantella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
221 taxa- Pustula7 sites
- Camarotoechia6 sites
- Lithostrotion6 sites
- Productus6 sites
- Spirifer6 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus5 sites
- Spirifer striatus5 sites
- Zaphrenthis5 sites
- Caninia4 sites
- Chonetes4 sites
- Dictyoclostus4 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus3 sites
- Athyris lamellosa3 sites
- Brachythyris3 sites
- Composita3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Dictyoclostus inflatus3 sites
- Eomarginifera derbiensis3 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus3 sites
- Euomphalus3 sites
- Leptagonia analoga3 sites
- Linoproductus ovatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Gigantella, 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
6 references- The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks of the Weaver Hills District, North Staffordshire8
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska6
- Corals from the Brazer Formation (Mississippian) of Northern Utah2
- Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska1
- The Metamorphic Series of Shasta County, California1
- Monographie des genres Productus et Chonetes1
Each of the 19 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 Gigantella 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 Gigantella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gigantella 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 itProductellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sarytcheval 1928