Varuna varuna
No picture of Varuna varuna 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 Varuna varuna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VarunaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 315.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Varuna varuna 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Varuna varuna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Varuna varuna and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Varuna varuna and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Fenestella6 sites
- Syringothyris lydekkeri4 sites
- Adminiculoria middlemissi3 sites
- Camarophoria dowhatensis2 sites
- Modiola lidarensis2 sites
- Aulosteges1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Aviculopecten middlemissii1 site
- Derbyia dorsoplana1 site
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1 site
- Fluctuaria undata1 site
- Linoproductus cora1 site
- Orthotichia1 site
- Phillipsia1 site
- Productus dowhatensis1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Stenoscisma1 site
- Stenoscisma humbletonensis1 site
- Streblopteria1 site
- Thamniscus1 site
- Uncinulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Varuna varuna, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Varuna varuna 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 Varuna varuna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVaruna through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Diener 1915)