Palaeostylus puperoides
No picture of Palaeostylus puperoides 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 Palaeostylus puperoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeostylusPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Palaeostylus puperoides on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Palaeostylus puperoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeostylus puperoides and its relatives
PermianWhere Palaeostylus puperoides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bellerophon (Bellerophon)1 site
- Donaldospira1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Geinitzina1 site
- Guizhouspira gibbicircelloides1 site
- Hemigordius1 site
- Meekospira1 site
- Murchisoniidae1 site
- Naticopsis heshanensis1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Palaeofusulina1 site
- Palaeostylus dongluoensis1 site
- Palaeostylus fusuiensis1 site
- Permocalculus1 site
- Platyzona dongluoensis1 site
- Plocezyga varica1 site
- Polygyrina1 site
- Porcellia magninodosa1 site
- Retispira matanensis1 site
- Soleniscus micidus1 site
- Soleniscus pactus1 site
- Trachydomia minuta1 site
- Trachyspira heshanensis1 site
- Trachyspira quangxiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeostylus puperoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Palaeostylus puperoides 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 Palaeostylus puperoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeostylus puperoides 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 itPalaeostylus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansuy 1914