Pentaphyllum

Pentaphyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentaphyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 70 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 70 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 65 of 70 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–386 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–348 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–309 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 3 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 38 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 16 occurrences393.47 Mya254.14 Mya414 Mya249 Mya

70 occurrences of Pentaphyllum 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

70 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

18 formations

Akhura — 39.57°N, 45.26°EAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EJulfa — 38.93°N, 45.51°EHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EJulfa — 39.83°N, 45.06°EJulfa — 39.54°N, 45.43°EKochusu — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKochusu — 37.92°N, 73.88°EKochusu — 37.89°N, 74.03°EJulfa — 38.97°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.54°N, 45.43°EAkhura — 39.84°N, 45.05°EIcerenkoy — 40.87°N, 29.12°EIcerenkoy — 40.00°N, 29.00°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.51°EWardak — 34.09°N, 68.49°EAli Bashi — 38.97°N, 45.53°EAli Bashi — 39.45°N, 45.23°EErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°EPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°WMaokou — 23.71°N, 109.24°EAbadeh — 30.91°N, 53.22°ESurmaq — 30.91°N, 53.22°EBaidingpu — 28.41°N, 89.53°EAli Bashi — 39.54°N, 45.43°E

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The named rock units Pentaphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentaphyllum and its relatives

Permian

Where Pentaphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Pentaphyllum, 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

15 references

Each of the 70 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. 3 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 Pentaphyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pentaphyllum 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 itPentaphyllinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Koninck 1872