Philhedra

Philhedra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Craniida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Craniida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Craniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Craniata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Craniata

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 353.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 34 of 97 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 15 of 97 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 42 of 97 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 97 occurrencesCarboniferous472–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 7 occurrences450–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 16 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 12 occurrences373–369 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences369–364 Mya — about 4 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 14 occurrences360–355 Mya — about 5 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 2 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya353.7 Mya472 Mya337 Mya

97 occurrences of Philhedra on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

97 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

47 formations

Sappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSappington — 46.21°N, 111.04°WSappington — 46.13°N, 111.36°WSappington — 45.96°N, 111.42°WSappington — 45.93°N, 111.32°WSappington — 45.96°N, 111.54°WSappington — 45.88°N, 111.67°WSappington — 45.91°N, 111.96°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.73°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WSappington — 45.91°N, 110.96°WSappington — 45.17°N, 111.79°WSappington — 41.65°N, 111.71°WSappington — 45.20°N, 111.96°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.39°EMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.37°N, 90.90°WChappel Limestone — 31.07°N, 99.30°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WTully — 42.83°N, 75.78°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WLittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangoyen — 59.88°N, 10.59°ERacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WHirmuse — 59.00°N, 26.00°EHirmuse — 59.31°N, 27.08°EDunleith — 42.02°N, 93.45°WLangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°EWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WZalesia — 50.77°N, 21.45°EKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMannie — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLodgepole Limestone — 45.73°N, 112.00°WWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°W

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The named rock units Philhedra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Philhedra and its relatives

Devonian

Where Philhedra and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,509 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Philhedra, 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

51 references

Each of the 97 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. 39 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 Philhedra

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1889