Palaeoaplysina

Palaeoaplysina is a genus of tabular, calcified fossils that are a component of many Late Palaeozoic reefs. The fossil acted as a baffle to trap sediment. Historically interpreted as a sponge or hydrozoan, recent studies are converging to its classification in the coralline stem group, placing it among the red algae.

No picture of Palaeoaplysina 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 Palaeoaplysina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaoaplysinaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 34 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 24 of 34 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrences385–380 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences380–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–371 Mya — about 1 occurrence371–367 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–304 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences304–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 11 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 9 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–258 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences372.15 Mya254.14 Mya385 Mya249 Mya

34 occurrences of Palaeoaplysina 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

34 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

19 formations

Orn — 71.50°N, 28.38°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°ESnaky Canyon — 43.65°N, 113.27°WWordiekammen — 78.72°N, 14.62°EWordiekammen — 78.47°N, 16.72°ELengwu — 29.80°N, 119.65°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°ELisen — 49.23°N, 16.76°EBelcher Channel — 78.38°N, 85.62°WTanquary — 79.09°N, 82.62°WHare Fiord — 81.05°N, 85.52°WEly — 38.73°N, 113.93°WShakhtau Reef — 53.63°N, 55.93°ENerma — 66.95°N, 51.42°EMcCloud — 40.93°N, 122.23°WKapp Duner — 74.48°N, 18.77°ENansen — 78.37°N, 85.92°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WIsbjørn — 71.50°N, 28.38°EChangxing — 30.48°N, 109.05°E

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The named rock units Palaeoaplysina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoaplysina and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeoaplysina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Palaeoaplysina, 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

21 references

Each of the 34 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Palaeoaplysina 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 Palaeoaplysina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeoaplysina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPalaoaplysinaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krotov 1888