Kiangsiella pectiniformis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- KiangsiellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
108 occurrences of Kiangsiella pectiniformis 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
108 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Kiangsiella pectiniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kiangsiella pectiniformis and its relatives
PermianWhere Kiangsiella pectiniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
661 taxa- Costiferina indica68 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi68 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus62 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis60 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa59 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata49 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis49 sites
- Chonetella nasuta45 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni44 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica43 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata43 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga42 sites
- Athyrella hybrida41 sites
- Spirigerella grandis41 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis37 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa36 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta35 sites
- Spirigerella proxima35 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni35 sites
- Notothyris warthi34 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana34 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis33 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata30 sites
- Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) cristata commixta30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Kiangsiella pectiniformis, 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
10 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range79
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 312
- New fossils from the Productus Limestones of the Salt Range, with notes on other species7
- On some Carboniferous Brachiopoda collected in India by A. Fleming, MD, and W. Purdon, Esq, FGS4
- Late Changxingian brachiopods from Huatang of Chenxian County, southern Hunan1
- Permiskie brakhiopodi yujnogo Primoriya1
- Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China, Part 21
- Zerstreute Dyasvorkommen in Mittel- und Südchina: Nanking, Yerkalo, Tshung-Tien USW1
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas1
- On the occurrence of Ammonites, associated with Ceratites, and Goniatites in the Carboniferous deposits of the Salt Range1
Each of the 108 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 Kiangsiella pectiniformis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKiangsiella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1862)