Psilokirkbyella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KirkbyellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 70 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 351.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 342.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Psilokirkbyella 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
6 occurrences- Silurian39%
- Devonian11%
- Carboniferous50%
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 Psilokirkbyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Psilokirkbyella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Psilokirkbyella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Graphiadactylloides3 sites
- Ammodiscus2 sites
- Amphipsalidocrinus inconsuetus2 sites
- Amphissites2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Bellerophontida2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Cladochonus crassus2 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Cornuspira semiconstrictus2 sites
- Cranaena2 sites
- Cryptobairdia compacta2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Cyathaxonia2 sites
- Cyathocrinites2 sites
- Cyrtina burlingtonensis2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Flexibilia2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Glomospira2 sites
- Kirkbyella2 sites
- Kirkbyella (Berdanella)2 sites
- Lampadosocrinus minutus2 sites
- Naticopsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Psilokirkbyella, 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
4 references- Kirkbyacea and Bairdiacea (Ostracoda) from the Palaeozoic of China2
- Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana2
- Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California1
- Ostracodes of the Haragan Formation (Devonian) in Oklahoma1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Psilokirkbyella 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 Psilokirkbyella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psilokirkbyella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKirkbyellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.