Pharkidonotus

Pharkidonotus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BellerophontinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 100 of 123 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 23 of 123 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 123 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–310 Mya — about 18 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 18 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 20 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 20 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 20 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya259.857 Mya332 Mya250 Mya

123 occurrences of Pharkidonotus 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

123 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

43 formations

Allegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 40.30°N, 81.85°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 39.53°N, 82.40°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 40.52°N, 81.47°WAllegheny — 39.67°N, 81.33°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.35°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.02°WAllegheny — 40.25°N, 80.87°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.15°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.79°N, 81.87°WConemaugh — 39.84°N, 81.82°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WChhidru — 32.45°N, 72.17°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.83°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.43°ECabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WBone Spring — 31.48°N, 104.87°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WVanport — 40.71°N, 80.29°WVanport — 40.99°N, 80.33°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WCherokee Shale — 37.37°N, 94.84°WPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.34°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WBar B — 32.87°N, 107.27°WPhosphoria — 42.57°N, 108.41°WPanther Seep — 32.92°N, 106.66°W

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The named rock units Pharkidonotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pharkidonotus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pharkidonotus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Pharkidonotus, 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

44 references

Each of the 123 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. 32 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 Pharkidonotus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pharkidonotus 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 itBellerophontinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1912)