Palaeofavosites balticus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaleofavositesPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 22 occurrencesSilurian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440.8 Mya – 440.5 Mya443.6 Mya426.2 Mya

22 occurrences of Palaeofavosites balticus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

22 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

3 formations

Tamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 59.00°N, 25.92°ETamsalu — 59.06°N, 25.14°ETamsalu — 58.48°N, 26.38°ETamsalu — 59.05°N, 24.45°ETamsalu — 58.90°N, 23.72°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°ERaikküla — 58.93°N, 24.19°ESyrovaty — 51.23°N, 84.79°E

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The named rock units Palaeofavosites balticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeofavosites balticus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Palaeofavosites balticus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Palaeofavosites balticus, 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 22 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 Palaeofavosites balticus 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 Palaeofavosites balticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeofavosites balticus 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 itPaleofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rukhin 1937