Phillipsia

Searched as Phillipsia (Phillipsia) arduinna n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Phillipsia as the accepted name.

Phillipsia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhillipsiinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 353.7 Mya and 346.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Phillipsia 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.

Found in

1 formation

Waulsort — 50.23°N, 5.00°E

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

Phillipsia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phillipsia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

895 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Phillipsia, 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

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 Phillipsia

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

No 3D scan of Phillipsia 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 itPhillipsiinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Portlock 1843