Kingena

Kingena is an extinct genus of primarily Cretaceous-aged brachiopods of the family Kingenidae whose fossils are found in marine strata of Antarctica, Europe, and New Zealand. Early Paleocene-aged fossils from Denmark represent the youngest species.

Kingena

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
KingeninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Kingenidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kingenidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kingenidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 27 of 106 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 71 of 106 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 106 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 106 occurrencesEocene123–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–110 Mya — about 6 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 6 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 10 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 12 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 12 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya56 Mya123 Mya47 Mya

106 occurrences of Kingena on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

106 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

25 formations

Gingin — 31.35°S, 115.90°EGingin — 31.34°S, 115.90°EGingin — 30.69°S, 115.70°EGingin — 30.67°S, 115.80°EAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WTe Wera Sandstone — 38.50°S, 177.35°ETe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EKarekare Siltstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°ESanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WGulpen — 50.77°N, 5.95°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 5.95°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.94°EWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WSanadinovo — 43.57°N, 24.96°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 64.27°S, 57.30°WRio Hatillo — 19.17°N, 70.67°WIndidura — 29.35°N, 101.05°WGingin Chalk — 31.35°S, 115.90°EToolonga Calcilutite — 27.70°S, 114.21°EToolonga Chalk — 27.67°S, 114.17°EObourg — 50.41°N, 3.92°ETrivières Chalk — 50.41°N, 3.92°EManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WLas Virgenes — 34.25°N, 118.74°WCatumbela — 12.35°S, 13.58°E

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The named rock units Kingena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kingena and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Kingena and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Kingena, 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

27 references

Each of the 106 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 Kingena

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kingena 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKingeninae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1852)