Stenoscisma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoscismatinaePBDB
- 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 least 158 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
985 occurrences of Stenoscisma 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
985 occurrences- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferous7%
- Permian93%
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
139 formations
- Wargal Formation131
- Skinner Ranch Formation74
- Cathedral Mountain Formation71
- Road Canyon Formation68
- Wegener Halvo Formation37
- Word Formation29
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The named rock units Stenoscisma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 115 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 114 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stenoscisma and its relatives
PermianWhere Stenoscisma and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,452 taxa- Composita38 sites
- Derbyia37 sites
- Dielasma34 sites
- Hustedia29 sites
- Meekella calathica28 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys26 sites
- Echinauris irregularis26 sites
- Chonosteges variabilis23 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata23 sites
- Derbyia laqueata22 sites
- Echinauris22 sites
- Megousia auriculata21 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus20 sites
- Phricodothyris20 sites
- Diplanus lamellatus19 sites
- Hercosia uddeni19 sites
- Linoproductus19 sites
- Reticulariina19 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa19 sites
- Rhipidomella hessensis19 sites
- Acosarina minuta18 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata18 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus18 sites
- Texarina wordensis18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 737 sites for Stenoscisma, and this reads 240 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
153 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI307
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range141
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda56
- Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland37
- Permian brachiopods from central Oregon24
- Permskaya sistema Pribaltiki (fauna i stratigrafiya). Permian deposits of the Baltic region (stratigraphy and fauna)21
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska20
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 219
- Paleoecology of brachiopod communities during the late Paleozoic ice age in Bolivia (Copacabana Formation, Pennsylvanian-Early Permian)15
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska8
- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England8
- A late Cisuralian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Taungnyo Group in the Zwekabin Range, eastern Myanmar and its biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and tectonic implications7
Each of the 985 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. 141 further references are not listed. 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 content1
Picture of Stenoscisma
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Stenoscisma 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 itStenoscismatinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1839)