Komia

A picture published with the record for Komia. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
SolenoporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 19 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 23 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 6 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 6 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences316.9 Mya266.9 Mya361 Mya262 Mya

23 occurrences of Komia 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

23 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

13 formations

La Pasada — 35.67°N, 105.28°WAzigan — 37.50°N, 76.83°ECuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WOrn — 71.50°N, 28.38°EEly — 38.73°N, 113.93°WLa Joya — 29.37°N, 109.88°WPicos de Europa — 43.13°N, 4.85°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.55°WMarble Falls — 31.02°N, 99.30°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°WOtto Fiord — 80.91°N, 84.25°WBelcher Channel — 76.94°N, 95.38°WMaokou — 27.65°N, 111.16°E

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The named rock units Komia 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.

Komia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Komia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Komia, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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 Komia

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
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 itSolenoporaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korde 1951