Palaeophyllum cateniforme

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeophyllumPBDB
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 most 800 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 450.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451.5 Mya449.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Palaeophyllum cateniforme on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

2 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

1 formation

Second Value — 31.85°N, 106.48°WSecond Value — 32.97°N, 106.53°W

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The named rock units Palaeophyllum cateniforme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeophyllum cateniforme and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeophyllum cateniforme and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Palaeophyllum cateniforme, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Palaeophyllum cateniforme was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeophyllum cateniforme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPalaeophyllum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1961