Patsyella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChaperiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 340 ka.
11 occurrences of Patsyella on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene9%
- Oligocene9%
- Miocene18%
- Pliocene36%
- Pleistocene27%
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 Patsyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Patsyella and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Patsyella and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Cellaria immersa7 sites
- Arachnopusia unicornis6 sites
- Escharoides angela5 sites
- Odontionella cyclops5 sites
- Chaperia acanthina4 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni4 sites
- Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina4 sites
- Fenestrulina malusi4 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa4 sites
- Hippomenella vellicata4 sites
- Macropora grandis4 sites
- Micropora coriacea4 sites
- Microporella ciliata4 sites
- Petraliella firmata4 sites
- Selenaria macgillivrayi4 sites
- Smittinella zealandiae4 sites
- Steginoporella neozelanica4 sites
- Amphiblestrum trifolium3 sites
- Cellaria tenuirostris3 sites
- Chaperia multifida3 sites
- Chaperia rubida3 sites
- Chiastosella watersi3 sites
- Crepidacantha zelanica3 sites
- Electra ongleyi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Patsyella, 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
2 references- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand10
- Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga1
Each of the 11 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 Patsyella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Patsyella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChaperiidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1948