Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata

Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Marginifera (Arenaria)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 7.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 21 of 21 occurrencesPermian267–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267.4 Mya259.4 Mya

21 occurrences of Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

21 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

Amb — 32.60°N, 71.76°EAmb — 32.55°N, 72.40°EAmb — 32.25°N, 71.14°EAmb — 32.65°N, 72.58°EAmb — 32.60°N, 72.63°EAmb — 32.57°N, 72.41°EAmb — 32.50°N, 71.93°E

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The named rock units Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata and its relatives

Permian

Where Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata, 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

Each of the 21 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Marginifera (Arenaria) echinata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
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 itMarginifera (Arenaria) through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)