Pachyblastus dicki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachyblastusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pachyblastus dicki on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
- Waboomberg Formation1
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The named rock units Pachyblastus dicki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachyblastus dicki and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pachyblastus dicki and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Strataster stuckenbergi2 sites
- Anchiopella1 site
- Australospirifer1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
- Brachyschisma oostheizeni1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Camerata1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cradeocrinus1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dignomia lepta1 site
- Drepanaster1 site
- Echinasterella1 site
- Eckidocrinus interbrachiatus n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Encrinaster tischbeinianus1 site
- Eugasterella africana1 site
- Grammysia1 site
- Haughtonaster reedi1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Mandelacrinus1 site
- Marginura hilleri1 site
- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer1 site
- Monaldicrinus johni n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Notiochonetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pachyblastus dicki, 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
2 references- Early Devonian echinoderms from South Africa2
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Pachyblastus dicki 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 Pachyblastus dicki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachyblastus dicki 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 itPachyblastus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Breimer and Macurda 1972