Knightella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonemidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 221 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–360 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences360–352 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences352–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–269 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences269–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–128 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358.86 Mya137.05 Mya377 Mya128 Mya

11 occurrences of Knightella 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

11 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

Akasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°ELower Limestone — 55.72°N, 4.76°WLower Limestone — 55.75°N, 4.69°WDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EEnglish River — 40.80°N, 91.12°WHamou-Rhanem — 31.07°N, 3.69°WKhao Khad — 14.79°N, 100.88°E

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The named rock units Knightella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Knightella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Knightella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Knightella, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 Knightella 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 Knightella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Knightella 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itOrthonemidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longstaff 1933