Kirkbya clarocarinata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KirkbyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312.8 Mya283.3 Mya324 Mya273 Mya

8 occurrences of Kirkbya clarocarinata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

6 formations

Qixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WGraham — 32.40°N, 98.89°WHenrietta — 38.65°N, 90.37°WMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°WGlen Eyrie — 38.89°N, 104.89°W

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The named rock units Kirkbya clarocarinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kirkbya clarocarinata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Kirkbya clarocarinata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kirkbya clarocarinata, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Kirkbya clarocarinata 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 Kirkbya clarocarinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kirkbya clarocarinata 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 itKirkbya through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knight 1928