Pachyphyllum

Pachyphyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhillipsastreidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 224 million years on record.

The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 25 of 26 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrences394–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–374 Mya — about 19 occurrences374–364 Mya — about 5 occurrences364–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385.9 Mya161.5 Mya394 Mya95 Mya

26 occurrences of Pachyphyllum 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

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

12 formations

Shell Rock — 43.13°N, 93.00°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.96°WLime Creek — 43.00°N, 93.00°WWiscoy Sandstone — 42.28°N, 77.55°WMikkwa — 58.50°N, 115.00°WMikkwa — 58.39°N, 114.83°WVassino — 56.20°N, 86.43°EVassino — 55.05°N, 84.37°EGlubokaya — 55.52°N, 85.70°EGlubokaya — 55.17°N, 84.57°EGuilmette — 37.41°N, 115.38°WRedknife — 62.00°N, 121.00°WSouthesk — 52.00°N, 120.00°WHanonet — 50.05°N, 4.48°ESimla — 53.87°N, 120.04°WBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°E

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The named rock units Pachyphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachyphyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pachyphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pachyphyllum, 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 Pachyphyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pachyphyllum 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 itPhillipsastreidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850