Kansuella
No picture of Kansuella 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 Kansuella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GigantoproductiniPBDB
- 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 least 4.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.1 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Kansuella 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kansuella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kansuella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kansuella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Striatifera2 sites
- Antiquatonia1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Cancrinella1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Choristites1 site
- Composita1 site
- Crurithyris1 site
- Dimegelasma1 site
- Echinoconchus elegans1 site
- Edmondia rudis1 site
- Eomarginifera1 site
- Eomarginifera schartimiensis1 site
- Fasciculiconcha1 site
- Gigantoproductus1 site
- Glyptoconcha elegans1 site
- Hustedia1 site
- Inflatia1 site
- Latiproductus1 site
- Martinia1 site
- Martinia glabra1 site
- Neospirifer1 site
- Nuculopsis1 site
- Overtonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kansuella, 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
3 references- Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography.1
- Paleotectonic Significance of an early Namurian (Carboniferous) Brachipod Fauna from Northwestern North America1
- New bivalves from the Datang Stage, Lower Carboniferous, Guangdong Province, China1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Kansuella 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 Kansuella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kansuella 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 itGigantoproductini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.