Girtyella

Girtyella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GirtyellinaePBDB
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 least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 375.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 379 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 90 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 84 of 90 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 90 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrences382–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–355 Mya — about 3 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 8 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 15 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 12 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 17 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 19 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–258 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375.2 Mya254.14 Mya382 Mya249 Mya

90 occurrences of Girtyella 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

90 occurrences

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

35 formations

Salem Limestone — 37.49°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.79°N, 85.82°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.33°N, 85.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.55°N, 85.70°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WSalem Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.03°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.57°N, 86.71°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.48°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.22°N, 86.55°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.50°N, 86.72°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.38°N, 86.61°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.87°N, 86.62°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WHeath — 46.95°N, 109.15°WHeath — 47.13°N, 109.56°WHeath — 46.92°N, 109.09°WHeath — 47.00°N, 109.27°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WParadise — 31.93°N, 100.22°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.08°N, 1.83°WMount Head — 50.38°N, 114.61°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WChappel Limestone — 31.07°N, 99.30°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WBangor Limestone — 34.45°N, 87.75°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WBig Snowy — 45.75°N, 112.00°WBig Snowy — 45.91°N, 111.67°WLittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°WLittle Valley — 36.88°N, 81.77°WGolconda — 38.30°N, 86.47°WGolconda — 37.93°N, 86.54°WArroyo Penasco — 35.83°N, 106.86°WArroyo Penasco — 36.10°N, 106.80°WGerster — 40.08°N, 113.83°WSchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°EGreat Blue Limestone — 42.19°N, 112.25°WMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WSt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WPella — 41.33°N, 92.38°WCalcaire de Ferques — 48.87°N, 2.33°EAmsden — 42.64°N, 108.71°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WBeech Creek — 38.59°N, 86.66°WHillsdale Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°W

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The named rock units Girtyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girtyella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Girtyella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

725 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Girtyella, 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

35 references

Each of the 90 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Girtyella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Girtyella 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.

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What may have been alongside itGirtyellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1911