Inflatia gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InflatiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
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.
4 occurrences of Inflatia gracilis 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Inflatia gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inflatia gracilis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Inflatia gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adairia adairensis3 sites
- Anthracospirifer1 site
- Anthracospirifer oliveirai1 site
- Brasilioproductus1 site
- Composita1 site
- Eomarginifera1 site
- Kiangsiella halliana1 site
- Kozlowskia1 site
- Marginovatia catinulus1 site
- Marginovatia minor1 site
- Mesochorispira1 site
- Orthotichia morganiana1 site
- Phricodothyris1 site
- Punctospirifer1 site
- Rhipidomella penniana1 site
- Schizophoria (Schizophoria)1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Spiriferidae1 site
- Tapajotia tapajotensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Inflatia gracilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Late Mississippian Productoid Brachiopods Inflatia, Keokukia, and Adairia, Ozark Region of Oklahoma and Arkansas3
- Uppermost Mississippian brachiopods from the basal Itaituba Formation of the Amazon Basin, Brazil1
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
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No picture of Inflatia gracilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Inflatia gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itInflatia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gordon et al. 1993