Petalaxis perapertuensis

Petalaxis perapertuensis

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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 most 7.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 307.4 Mya and 300.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307.9 Mya299.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Petalaxis perapertuensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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.

Petalaxis perapertuensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Petalaxis perapertuensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Petalaxis perapertuensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Petalaxis perapertuensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Petalaxis perapertuensis 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 timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Groot 1963)