Gryphochitonidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CymatochitoninaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPermian — about 11 of 12 occurrencesPermian430–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences291–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 4 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence422.7 Mya264.28 Mya430 Mya257 Mya

12 occurrences of Gryphochitonidae 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

12 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

7 formations

Road Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.33°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WCoyote Butte — 43.95°N, 119.79°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°EBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WRoad — 30.36°N, 103.27°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WGazelle — 41.37°N, 122.68°W

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The named rock units Gryphochitonidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gryphochitonidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Gryphochitonidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gryphochitonidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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

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No picture of Gryphochitonidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Gryphochitonidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gryphochitonidae 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 itCymatochitonina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbury 1900