Virgiana decussata

No picture of Virgiana decussata 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 Virgiana decussata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VirgianaPBDB
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 24 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 22 occurrencesSilurian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 22 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Virgiana decussata 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

22 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

1 formation

Fisher 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°W

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The named rock units Virgiana decussata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgiana decussata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Virgiana decussata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Virgiana decussata, 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

Each of the 22 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 Virgiana decussata 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 Virgiana decussata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Virgiana decussata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itVirgiana through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1891)