Kepingia tarimensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KepingiaPBDB
- 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 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Kepingia tarimensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kepingia tarimensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kepingia tarimensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Kepingia tarimensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Kochiproductus4 sites
- Liraplecta paojianggouensis4 sites
- Kepingia davangouensis3 sites
- Liraplecta richthofeni3 sites
- Horridonia2 sites
- Bruntonella tenuireticulatus1 site
- Chaoiella ustritskyi1 site
- Orbicoelia elongatiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Kepingia tarimensis, 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- Artinskian-Kungurian (Early Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China, Part 1: Biostratigraphy and systematics of Productida4
- A new tribe of Dictyoclostid brachiopods from the Lower Permian of the Tarim Basin, North-West China1
Each of the 5 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 Kepingia tarimensis 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 Kepingia tarimensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kepingia tarimensis 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 itKepingia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chen and Shi 2000)