Imoella obscura
No picture of Imoella obscura 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 Imoella obscura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ImoellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Imoella obscura 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Imoella obscura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Imoella obscura and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Imoella obscura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) parasolum2 sites
- Glabrocingulum binodosum2 sites
- Glabrocingulum quadrigatum2 sites
- Strobeus2 sites
- Amphiscapha intermedius1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Anthracoceras paucilobum1 site
- Aphelaeceras arkansanum1 site
- Apotocardium polymitarium1 site
- Apotocardium snideri1 site
- Asketomorpha grandis1 site
- Astartella concentrica1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) welshi1 site
- Bistrialites bicostatus1 site
- Bradyphyllum1 site
- Caneyella wapanuckensis1 site
- Dolorthoceras incisum1 site
- Economolopsis gordoni1 site
- Ectogrammysia crassatis1 site
- Epistroboceras1 site
- Epistroboceras lesliense1 site
- Euchondria1 site
- Euloxoceras angustius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Imoella obscura, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Imoella obscura 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 Imoella obscura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Imoella obscura 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 itImoella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoare et al. 1989