Paleofavosites transiens

Paleofavosites transiens

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 most 24 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 18 occurrencesSilurian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 18 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Paleofavosites transiens 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

18 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

6 formations

Cedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.58°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 99.50°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.24°N, 99.52°WInwood — 53.17°N, 99.28°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WEast Arm Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.13°N, 97.32°WMoose Lake Dolomite — 54.05°N, 100.92°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.22°N, 99.48°W

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

Paleofavosites transiens and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paleofavosites transiens and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Paleofavosites transiens, 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

1 reference

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Paleofavosites transiens

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paleofavosites transiens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Stearn 1956