Gertholites

Gertholites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 3 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence339.9 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

26 occurrences of Gertholites 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

26 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

9 formations

Bagh-e Vang — 33.97°N, 56.78°EBarfield — 25.14°S, 150.20°EBarfield — 25.21°S, 150.22°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°ESisophon — 13.07°N, 103.04°EJamal — 33.99°N, 56.78°EAtahoc — 9.46°S, 124.60°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°ESenja — 28.92°N, 83.36°E

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The named rock units Gertholites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gertholites and its relatives

Permian

Where Gertholites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

338 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Gertholites, 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 26 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 Gertholites

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 Gertholites 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 itPachyporidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1955