Girtyocoelia beedei

Girtyocoelia beedei

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GirtyocoeliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 66 of 67 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 67 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 24 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 24 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298.9 Mya254.14 Mya308 Mya251 Mya

67 occurrences of Girtyocoelia beedei 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

67 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

11 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 32.17°N, 104.44°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WOum el Afia Shale — 33.42°N, 10.18°EAl Jil — 23.13°N, 58.33°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.41°N, 10.20°EJamal — 33.98°N, 56.79°ELercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°EBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WChelamchin — 38.90°N, 71.15°EAuernig — 46.57°N, 13.25°E

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The named rock units Girtyocoelia beedei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girtyocoelia beedei and its relatives

Permian

Where Girtyocoelia beedei and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Girtyocoelia beedei, 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

12 references

Each of the 67 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 content1

Picture of Girtyocoelia beedei

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGirtyocoelia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)