Khalfinaea

No picture of Khalfinaea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Khalfinaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CliefdenellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 440.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurian453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.2 Mya443.1 Mya453.3 Mya440 Mya

2 occurrences of Khalfinaea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

2 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

1 formation

Mynaral — 45.36°N, 73.73°E

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The named rock units Khalfinaea 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.

Khalfinaea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Khalfinaea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Khalfinaea, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content0

No picture of Khalfinaea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Khalfinaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Khalfinaea was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.