Pentameridae

Pentameridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentameroideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 499 occurrencesSilurian — about 489 of 499 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 499 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 9 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 34 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 85 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 58 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 58 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 51 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 41 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 33 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 48 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 51 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 17 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 5 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences440.8 Mya383.4 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

499 occurrences of Pentameridae 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

499 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

116 formations

Attawapiskat — 52.85°N, 83.90°WAttawapiskat — 52.90°N, 83.95°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.64°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.52°WAttawapiskat — 52.93°N, 83.39°WAttawapiskat — 52.96°N, 83.16°WAttawapiskat — 52.94°N, 83.07°WAttawapiskat — 55.55°N, 85.60°WAttawapiskat — 53.46°N, 82.93°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.40°WJupiter — 49.42°N, 63.50°WJupiter — 49.17°N, 61.71°WJupiter — 49.17°N, 62.79°WJupiter — 49.25°N, 63.04°WJupiter — 49.54°N, 63.34°WJupiter — 49.07°N, 62.25°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 62.15°WJupiter — 49.24°N, 62.24°WJupiter — 49.48°N, 63.17°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.48°WJupiter — 49.28°N, 62.10°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.37°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.33°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.68°N, 94.16°WRead Bay — 74.65°N, 94.71°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.43°WRead Bay — 74.68°N, 93.50°WLaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 40.00°N, 97.00°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WReynales — 43.26°N, 77.16°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WReynales — 43.26°N, 77.06°WReynales — 43.25°N, 77.02°WGun River — 49.47°N, 63.62°WGun River — 49.50°N, 63.00°WGun River — 49.26°N, 61.80°WGun River — 49.17°N, 61.71°WGun River — 49.20°N, 61.77°WGun River — 49.27°N, 62.37°WWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WRumba — 58.61°N, 25.98°ERumba — 58.39°N, 24.50°ERumba — 58.36°N, 23.86°ERumba — 58.84°N, 24.04°ERumba — 58.82°N, 24.60°ERumba — 58.86°N, 24.08°ERumba — 58.74°N, 24.08°ELouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WWolcott — 43.22°N, 77.34°WWolcott — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWolcott — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WWolcott — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWaukesha — 43.78°N, 88.45°WWaukesha — 43.08°N, 88.26°WWaukesha — 43.00°N, 89.53°WManistique — 45.06°N, 87.12°WManistique — 45.05°N, 87.30°WManistique — 45.29°N, 86.98°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°ELa Vieille — 47.83°N, 65.50°WLa Vieille — 47.75°N, 67.00°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.84°WHerkimer — 43.06°N, 75.40°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°WHerkimer — 43.03°N, 75.28°WKersadiou — 48.30°N, 4.25°WKersadiou — 48.29°N, 4.55°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.41°N, 116.64°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.50°N, 116.64°WFossil Hill — 45.83°N, 82.33°WBirstonas — 55.55°N, 24.10°EBirstonas — 55.67°N, 25.38°EBirstonas — 55.32°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Pentameridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 128 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentameridae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pentameridae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,450 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 362 sites for Pentameridae, and this reads 240 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

113 references

Each of the 499 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. 101 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 Pentameridae

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pentameridae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1844