Imperatoria minima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ImperatoriaPBDB
- 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 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Imperatoria minima on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Imperatoria minima 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.
Imperatoria minima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Imperatoria minima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Amblysiphonella grossa4 sites
- Corymbospongia adnata3 sites
- Cystothalamiella ducta3 sites
- Rigbyetia obconica3 sites
- Anoptambonites2 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis2 sites
- Diochthofera conspicua2 sites
- Elasmothyris limata2 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina2 sites
- Eripnifera praecipitis2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Imperatoria media2 sites
- Imperatoria mega2 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi2 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata2 sites
- Ptychopleurella uniplicata2 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius2 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus2 sites
- Taphrorthis2 sites
- Austinella kankakensis1 site
- Bimuria1 site
- Corymbospongia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Imperatoria minima, 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 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 content0
No picture of Imperatoria minima 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 Imperatoria minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Imperatoria minima 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itImperatoria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Potter 1986