Petalolithus

No picture of Petalolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Petalolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalolithinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 54 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 53 of 54 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence445.2 Mya438.6 Mya453.3 Mya432.4 Mya

54 occurrences of Petalolithus 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

54 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

23 formations

Road River — 65.28°N, 135.70°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WLower Jenhochiao — 25.00°N, 99.00°ESkelgill — 54.32°N, 2.75°WPengjiayuan — 30.77°N, 111.33°EShiwuzi — 30.72°N, 111.28°EXiaoshihugou — 37.95°N, 101.05°EDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WDescon — 55.50°N, 133.62°WLime Hill Beds — 54.60°N, 6.93°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°ELa Lande Muree — 48.27°N, 2.07°WOued Ali — 29.65°N, 2.28°WTiounkeline Shale — 26.10°N, 3.48°EBulong — 46.78°N, 85.72°EKalpintake — 40.45°N, 79.03°ELeijiatun — 28.00°N, 108.00°ENanjiang — 33.00°N, 107.00°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°E"Siaohopa" — 28.55°N, 108.85°ETewo — 34.00°N, 103.00°EYuanbaoshan — 40.50°N, 100.10°EPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WTabuk — 26.90°N, 43.60°ECape Phillips — 75.45°N, 94.33°W

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The named rock units Petalolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petalolithus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Petalolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Petalolithus, 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

14 references

Each of the 54 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Petalolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Petalolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Petalolithus 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 itPetalolithinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Suess 1851