Sieberella problematica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SieberellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sieberella problematica on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sieberella problematica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sieberella problematica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sieberella problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Ambocoelia4 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica4 sites
- Dolerorthis4 sites
- Leptostrophia4 sites
- Reticulariopsis4 sites
- Atrypina simpsoni3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Aesopomum2 sites
- Aesopomum varistriatus2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Biconostrophia2 sites
- Brachyprion mirabilis2 sites
- Cortezorthis2 sites
- Cymostrophia (Cymostrophia) stephani2 sites
- Drahanostrophia2 sites
- Glassia2 sites
- Gypidula2 sites
- Gypidula pseudogaleata2 sites
- Latonotoechia2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sieberella problematica, 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- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda2
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopods of Royal Creek, Yukon Canada. Part 1. Orthoida, Strophomenida, Pentamerida, Rhynchonellida1
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
Media content0
No picture of Sieberella problematica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sieberella problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itSieberella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1847)