Katastrophomena zheganensis
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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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Katastrophomena zheganensis 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Katastrophomena zheganensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Katastrophomena zheganensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Katastrophomena zheganensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cathaysiorthis yushanensis6 sites
- Epitomyonia6 sites
- Fardenia (Fardenia) flexa6 sites
- Leptaena rugosa6 sites
- Eospirigerina putilla5 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana5 sites
- Glyptorthis4 sites
- Paracraniops pararius4 sites
- Brevilamnulella kjerulfi3 sites
- Mendacella3 sites
- Pseudolingula3 sites
- Alispira2 sites
- Deliella2 sites
- Eopholidostrophia (Megapholidostrophia)2 sites
- Eospirifer (Eospirifer) eosinensis2 sites
- Paracraniops2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sulcatospira2 sites
- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cathaysiorthidae1 site
- Cathysiorthidae <sp. indet. 2>1 site
- Chunanella chunnanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Katastrophomena zheganensis, 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 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Katastrophomena zheganensis 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 Katastrophomena zheganensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Katastrophomena zheganensis 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 itKatastrophomena through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong et al. 2013