Pantylus cordatus
Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- PantylusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pantylus cordatus 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
6 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
5 formations
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group2
- Belle Plains Formation · Wichita Group1
- Archer City Formation · Wichita Group1
- Putnam Formation · Wichita Group1
- Clyde Formation1
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The named rock units Pantylus cordatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pantylus cordatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Pantylus cordatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Eryops3 sites
- Diadectes2 sites
- Diadectes sideropelicus2 sites
- Dimetrodon2 sites
- Dimetrodon limbatus2 sites
- Eryops megacephalus2 sites
- Ophiacodon major2 sites
- Amphiscapha (Cylicioscapha) texana1 site
- Araeoscelis casei1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Broiliellus1 site
- Captorhinus1 site
- Captorhinus aguti1 site
- Captorhinus laticeps1 site
- Cavellina nebrascensis1 site
- Cricotus crassidiscus1 site
- Diadectes molaris1 site
- Dimetrodon natalis1 site
- Embolobus ritillus1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
- Foordiceras1 site
- Knightoceras kempae1 site
- Liroceras globulare1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pantylus cordatus, 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
4 references- The postcranial skeleton of the Permian microsaur Pantylus2
- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds2
- Pantylus Cordatus Cope1
- The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Pantylus cordatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pantylus cordatus 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 itPantylus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1881