Girtyella sacculus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GirtyellaPBDB
- 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 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 375.2 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 379 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Girtyella sacculus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian75%
- Carboniferous25%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Girtyella sacculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Girtyella sacculus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Girtyella sacculus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Alveolites3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Aulopora3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Douvillina3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Productella subaculeata3 sites
- Schizophoria striatula3 sites
- Tenticospirifer3 sites
- Athyris concentrica2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Clionolithes2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dalmanellidae2 sites
- Disphyllum2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Metriophyllum2 sites
- Rhynchonellidae2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
- Sieberella2 sites
- Spinatrypa2 sites
- Spiriferida2 sites
- Spirorbis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Girtyella sacculus, 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
3 references- The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France2
- The origin and significance of the distribution of shelly macrofauna in Late Dinantian carbonate mud mounds of Derbyshire1
- Homeomorphy between Devonian brachiopod communities in France and Iowa1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Girtyella sacculus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Girtyella sacculus 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 itGirtyella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)