Petalaxis elyensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalaxisPBDB
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 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermian307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303.7 Mya298.9 Mya307.5 Mya293 Mya

4 occurrences of Petalaxis elyensis on record. 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

4 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

3 formations

Ferguson Mountain — 39.01°N, 114.92°WHare Fiord — 80.74°N, 85.75°WRiepe Spring — 40.60°N, 114.85°W

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

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Petalaxis elyensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Petalaxis elyensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Petalaxis elyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Petalaxis elyensis 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 itPetalaxis through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson and Langenheim 1962)