Kometia

No picture of Kometia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Kometia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexactinellidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 449 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrences513–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500.5 Mya449 Mya513 Mya442 Mya

5 occurrences of Kometia 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

5 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

3 formations

Malongulli — 33.59°S, 148.87°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WHuaqiao — 28.38°N, 109.53°E

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The named rock units Kometia 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.

Kometia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Kometia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kometia, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Kometia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Kometia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kometia 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 itHexactinellida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webby and Trotter 1993