Palaeosmilia

Palaeosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeosmiliinaePBDB
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 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 103 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 100 of 103 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 103 occurrencesPermian367–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 6 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 16 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 18 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 21 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 20 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 9 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 6 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya266.9 Mya367 Mya258 Mya

103 occurrences of Palaeosmilia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

103 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

44 formations

High Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.50°N, 3.00°WYamansu — 41.90°N, 93.77°EIdmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.23°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.36°N, 2.06°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.37°N, 2.00°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.30°N, 2.06°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WMaydown Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WClogrenan — 52.68°N, 7.02°WDjebel Ouarkziz — 28.36°N, 9.48°WTirhela — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirhela — 33.44°N, 5.23°WChee Tor Limestone — 53.25°N, 1.78°WMilldale Limestone — 53.25°N, 1.78°WSpring Quarry Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WLlanarmon Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.10°N, 1.57°WRed Hill Oolite — 54.17°N, 3.18°WFoel — 53.63°N, 2.70°WDyserth Quarry Limestone — 53.70°N, 2.67°WIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°ERoc de Murviel — 43.55°N, 3.33°EGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone IIIa — 54.30°N, 2.15°W

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The named rock units Palaeosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeosmilia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Palaeosmilia, 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

37 references

Each of the 103 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Palaeosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeosmilia 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 itPalaeosmiliinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848