Lunaferamita virginiensis
No picture of Lunaferamita virginiensis 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 Lunaferamita virginiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LunaferamitaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lunaferamita virginiensis 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Lunaferamita virginiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lunaferamita virginiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lunaferamita virginiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Albardonia bifoliata n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Algae indet.1 site
- Argentinopora robusta n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Arthroclema1 site
- Brachiopoda indet.1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Chazydictya1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dianulites1 site
- Dinorthis atavoides1 site
- Diplotrypa1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Heterotrypa1 site
- Homotrypa1 site
- Homotrypa subramosa1 site
- Jordanopora heroensis1 site
- Mimella1 site
- Monticulipora mammulata1 site
- Nicholsonella1 site
- Orbignyella1 site
- Parachasmatopora1 site
- Pseudostictoporella1 site
- Sowerbyites subnasutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lunaferamita virginiensis, 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
3 references- Lunaferamita, a new genus of Constellariidae (Bryozoa) with strong cystoporate affinities2
- A cool-water bryozoan association from the La Pola Formation (Sandbian, Ordovician) of Argentine Precordillera1
- Bryozoan species in the Chickasaw bryozoan reef (Ordovician, Oklahoma)1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Lunaferamita virginiensis 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 Lunaferamita virginiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lunaferamita virginiensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itLunaferamita through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Utgaard 1981