Paffrathia lotzi
No picture of Paffrathia lotzi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Paffrathia lotzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaffrathiaPBDB
- Diet
- coprophagePBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Motility
- passively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paffrathia lotzi 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
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The named rock units Paffrathia lotzi 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.
Paffrathia lotzi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Paffrathia lotzi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus2 sites
- Bensbergia arculata2 sites
- Euryzone delphinuloides2 sites
- Kirchneriella striata2 sites
- Paffrathopsis subcostata2 sites
- Antirotella helicinaeformis1 site
- Astralites muelleri1 site
- Astralites sublimbatus1 site
- Bensbergia drozdzewski1 site
- Bensbergia schlotheimi1 site
- Blodgettina reticulata1 site
- Breizospira hagenensis1 site
- Buechelia nodifera1 site
- Champernownia wagneri1 site
- Clathronema reticulata1 site
- Devonocerithioides loxonemoides1 site
- Devonoconica undullaria1 site
- Devonorhineoderma beaumonti1 site
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei1 site
- Eiserhardtia inepta1 site
- Eleutherospira steltenbergensis1 site
- Euryzone roemeri1 site
- Hessonia piligera1 site
- Heteroloxonema moniliniformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paffrathia lotzi, 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
3 references- Gastropoda from the Givetian “Massenkalk” of Schwelm and Hohenlimburg (Saureland, Rheinsiches Schiefergebirge, Germany)1
- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)1
- Some new Givetian (Late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany)1
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 Paffrathia lotzi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paffrathia lotzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paffrathia lotzi 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 itPaffrathia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frýda 1998