Sphenarina sicula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenarinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sphenarina sicula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene89%
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.
Sphenarina sicula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sphenarina sicula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Ceramisia meneghiniana2 sites
- Gryphus sphenoideus2 sites
- Aphelesia bipartita1 site
- Dallina septigera1 site
- Fallax septatus1 site
- Megerlia truncata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphenarina sicula, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria3
- Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods2
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Sphenarina sicula 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 Sphenarina sicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenarina sicula 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 itSphenarina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1870)