Kayserella

Kayserella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KayserellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 9 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesDevonian445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya382.31 Mya445 Mya371 Mya

9 occurrences of Kayserella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

9 occurrences

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

4 formations

Road River — 64.77°N, 135.19°WYikewusu — 40.00°N, 105.00°EWallen Slate — 51.40°N, 8.58°ESparke Conglomerate — 18.58°S, 126.13°E

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The named rock units Kayserella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kayserella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Kayserella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Kayserella, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 Kayserella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kayserella 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 itKayserellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.