Palaeofavosites paulus
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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 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
21 occurrences of Palaeofavosites paulus 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
21 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Palaeofavosites paulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeofavosites paulus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Palaeofavosites paulus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Palaeofavosites forbesiformis13 sites
- Palaeofavosites limbergensis10 sites
- Palaeofavosites schmidti9 sites
- Clathrodictyon boreale8 sites
- Palaeofavosites balticus7 sites
- Palaeofavosites dagoensis5 sites
- Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi4 sites
- Mesofavosites dualis4 sites
- Mesofavosites similis4 sites
- Palaeofavosites primus4 sites
- Paliphyllum soshkinae4 sites
- Borealis borealis3 sites
- Ecclimadictyon laminaeungulatum3 sites
- Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum3 sites
- Mesofavosites fleximurinus3 sites
- Palaeofavosites felix3 sites
- Palaeofavosites hirtus3 sites
- Palaeofavosites hystrix3 sites
- Brachyelasma estonicum2 sites
- Eospirigerina porkuniana2 sites
- Palaeofavosites aaloei2 sites
- Palaeofavosites alveolaris2 sites
- Palaeofavosites juuru2 sites
- Paleofavosites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Palaeofavosites paulus, 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- Late Ordovician and early Silurian Favositida of Estonia19
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
- A Stratigraphic revision of the lowermost Silurian in the northern east - baltic area1
Each of the 21 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 paulus 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 Palaeofavosites paulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeofavosites paulus 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. Sokolov 1951