Virgiana

Virgiana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VirgianinaePBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 51 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 50 of 51 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 51 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 11 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 11 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya432.9 Mya450.1 Mya419 Mya

51 occurrences of Virgiana on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

51 occurrences

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

8 formations

Becscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.09°N, 61.77°WBecscie — 49.62°N, 63.75°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.06°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 62.42°WBecscie — 49.28°N, 61.83°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.68°N, 97.53°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.13°N, 97.32°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WMayville — 45.06°N, 87.12°WMayville — 43.71°N, 88.38°WMayville — 43.49°N, 88.54°WMerrimack — 49.62°N, 63.43°WMerrimack — 49.60°N, 63.18°WDyer Bay — 45.83°N, 82.33°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Virgiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgiana and its relatives

Silurian

Where Virgiana and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Virgiana, 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

12 references

Each of the 51 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 content1

Picture of Virgiana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Virgiana 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 itVirgianinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Twenhofel 1914