Kummerowia

No picture of Kummerowia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Kummerowia itself, so it was not used. 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 Kummerowia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopidaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352.4 Mya342.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Kummerowia 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

2 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

1 formation

Tin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°W

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

Kummerowia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Kummerowia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kummerowia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Kummerowia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Kummerowia itself, so it was not used.

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 Kummerowia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kummerowia 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.