Lithostrotionella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetalaxidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 43 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
35 occurrences of Lithostrotionella 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
35 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
15 formations
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group8
- Kogruk Formation · Lisburne Group5
- Surrett Canyon Formation4
- White Pine Shale Formation2
- Little Flat Formation2
- Hillsdale Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Lithostrotionella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithostrotionella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Lithostrotionella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Caninia8 sites
- Cleiothyridina7 sites
- Composita7 sites
- Fenestella7 sites
- Ekvasophyllum6 sites
- Lithostrotion5 sites
- Punctospirifer5 sites
- Rhombopora5 sites
- Spirifer5 sites
- Syringopora5 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis4 sites
- Antiquatonia4 sites
- Eumetria4 sites
- Schizophoria4 sites
- Tabulipora4 sites
- Anthracospirifer3 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi3 sites
- Aulopora3 sites
- Camarotoechia3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Dictyoclostus inflatus3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
- Fistulipora3 sites
- Lithostrotion mutabile3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Lithostrotionella, 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
16 references- Carbonate Facies and the Lithostrotionid Corals of the Mississippian Kogruk Formation, DeLong Mountains, Northwestern Alaska5
- Middle and Upper Carboniferous rugose corals from southern Dahinganling (Great Khingan Mts.)4
- Stratigraphy, Faunal Assemblages, and Depositional Environments of the Surrett Canyon Formation (Chesterian), Lost River Range, South-Central Idaho4
- Stratigraphy and facies relationships of the upper Mississippian Mount Head Formation, Rocky Mountains and foothills, southwestern Alberta4
- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta4
- New Mississippian Formations and Faunal Zones in Chesterfield Range, Portneuf Quadrangle Southeast Idaho3
- Mississippian Joana Limestone of Cordilleran miogeosyncline and use of Ca/Mg ratio in correlation2
- Geology of the Eastern Flank of the Little Belt Mountains with emphasis on Carbonate Buildup; Judith Basin County, Montana1
- Devonian syringoporoid corals from southeastern Alaska1
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
- Geology of the Panamint Butte Quadrangle, Inyo County, California1
- Geology of the Garns Mountain Quadrangle Bonneville, Madison, and Teton Counties, Idaho1
Each of the 35 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. 4 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Lithostrotionella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- IGC_UFMG_Paleontology
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- CC Attribution
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPetalaxidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yabe and Hayasaka 1915)