Girvanella problematica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GirvanellaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Girvanella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Girvanella
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Girvanella
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 394 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Cambrian — about 4 of 32 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 8 of 32 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 32 occurrencesDevonian — about 14 of 32 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 32 occurrences529–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–418 Mya — about 4 occurrences404–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–376 Mya — about 7 occurrences376–362 Mya — about 4 occurrences362–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence516 Mya121.4 Mya529 Mya112 Mya

32 occurrences of Girvanella problematica 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

32 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

21 formations

Ihmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°EHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WHeceta — 55.73°N, 133.47°WCashions Creek — 42.58°S, 146.50°ECashions Creek — 42.73°S, 146.63°EStinchar — 55.21°N, 4.70°WStinchar — 55.21°N, 4.78°WOi-Muran Reef Massif — 61.07°N, 126.18°ESokol Subsuite — 48.50°N, 26.62°EAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.18°N, 64.97°WUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°ESteinvika Limestone — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESalaany Gol — 47.15°N, 96.90°ESouverain-Pré — 50.61°N, 5.95°ESekwi — 63.73°N, 129.05°WJipao/Jiwozhai — 25.83°N, 107.53°EWangchengpo — 25.83°N, 107.53°EMintang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EGubi — 22.88°N, 108.87°ERongxian — 22.88°N, 108.87°EWuzhishan — 24.98°N, 110.45°ERizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°EPingliang — 34.98°N, 108.90°EBeiguoshan — 35.02°N, 106.66°E

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The named rock units Girvanella problematica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girvanella problematica and its relatives

Devonian

Where Girvanella problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Girvanella problematica, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 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

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No picture of Girvanella problematica 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 Girvanella problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Girvanella problematica 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 itGirvanella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878