Palaeophyllum gracile

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

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 least 600 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya – 449.6 Mya451.5 Mya445 Mya

3 occurrences of Palaeophyllum gracile 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

3 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

2 formations

Second Value — 31.85°N, 106.48°WSecond Value — 32.97°N, 106.53°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.86°N, 107.51°W

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

Palaeophyllum gracile and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeophyllum gracile, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

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. 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 Palaeophyllum gracile 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 Palaeophyllum gracile, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeophyllum gracile 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 itPalaeophyllum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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