Katastrophomena penkillensis

Rubel, Madis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KatastrophomenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 425 Mya.
26 occurrences of Katastrophomena penkillensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
26 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
10 formations
- Solvik Formation10
- Högklint Formation3
- Jaani Formation3
- Upper Visby Formation2
- Hogklint Beds Formation1
- Slite Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Katastrophomena penkillensis 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.
Katastrophomena penkillensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Katastrophomena penkillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Katastrophomena (Katastrophomena) penkillensis10 sites
- Leangella scissa10 sites
- Stricklandia lens10 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata9 sites
- Tentaculites9 sites
- Trilobita9 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Protatrypa malmoeyensis8 sites
- Dicoelosia osloensis7 sites
- Rugosa7 sites
- Aegiria norvegica6 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis6 sites
- Meifodia6 sites
- Fenestrata5 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa5 sites
- Conulariida4 sites
- Cyclocrinites4 sites
- Eostropheodonta4 sites
- Isorthis4 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana4 sites
- Skenidioides4 sites
- Coolinia pecten3 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus3 sites
- Dalejina hybrida3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Katastrophomena penkillensis, 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
6 references- Strophomenidae, Leptostrophiidae, Strophodontidae and Shaleriidae (Brachiopoda, Strophomenida) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden11
- Benthic faunal associations in the Lower Silurian Solvik Formation of the Oslo-Asker Districts, Norway6
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia3
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway3
- Some strophomenacean brachiopods from the British Lower Silurian2
- Brachiopods of the Lower Llandovery Saelabonn and Solvik formations of the Ringerike, Asker, and Oslo districts1
Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Katastrophomena penkillensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rubel, Madis
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Katastrophomena penkillensis 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 itKatastrophomena through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1917)