Phillipsiidae

Phillipsiidae is a family of proetid trilobites, the various genera of which comprise some of the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Kinderhookian epoch of the Lower Mississippian, to the end of Changhsingian age at Permian-Triassic extinction event in the latest Permian period.

Phillipsiidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 191 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 1871 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 1871 occurrencesDevonian — about 242 of 1871 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1153 of 1871 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 468 of 1871 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1871 occurrences457–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–443 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 18 occurrences366–359 Mya — about 207 occurrences359–352 Mya — about 332 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 265 occurrences345–338 Mya — about 172 occurrences338–331 Mya — about 136 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 60 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 36 occurrences318–311 Mya — about 44 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 76 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 61 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 38 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 33 occurrences283–276 Mya — about 55 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 110 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 121 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 47 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 50 occurrences445.2 Mya254.14 Mya457 Mya248 Mya

1,871 occurrences of Phillipsiidae 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

1,871 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

325 formations

Erdbach Limestone — 51.28°N, 6.83°EErdbach Limestone — 50.42°N, 8.12°EErdbach Limestone — 51.82°N, 10.22°EErdbach Limestone — 50.67°N, 8.20°EErdbach Limestone — 51.20°N, 14.90°EWangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EWangyou — 25.73°N, 106.52°EPal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°EPal Grande — 46.67°N, 12.98°EWocklum Limestone — 51.40°N, 7.83°EWocklum Limestone — 51.46°N, 8.43°EWocklum Limestone — 51.32°N, 7.88°EBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WWocklum — 51.33°N, 7.87°EWocklum — 51.49°N, 8.35°EWocklum — 51.39°N, 7.96°EKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 36.45°N, 112.32°WKaibab — 39.02°N, 110.48°WKaibab — 36.06°N, 112.14°WKaibab — 37.90°N, 111.15°WKaibab — 34.51°N, 111.36°WKaibab — 36.04°N, 115.40°WKaibab — 35.18°N, 111.67°WKaibab — 36.19°N, 112.36°WKaibab — 36.05°N, 112.14°WKaibab — 34.38°N, 110.82°WKaibab — 36.72°N, 112.21°WKaibab — 36.50°N, 112.00°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.46°WKaibab — 35.13°N, 111.29°WKaibab — 35.10°N, 111.56°WKaibab — 35.10°N, 111.54°WMarta — 44.79°N, 34.06°EMarta — 44.72°N, 34.07°EMarta — 44.81°N, 34.28°EMarta — 44.71°N, 34.04°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WHillershausen — 51.07°N, 8.93°EHillershausen — 51.25°N, 8.68°EHillershausen — 50.68°N, 8.32°EHillershausen — 51.27°N, 7.18°EHillershausen — 51.26°N, 7.08°EHillershausen — 51.49°N, 8.48°EYonghsien — 26.20°N, 111.05°EYonghsien — 25.32°N, 110.10°EYonghsien — 26.20°N, 111.05°EErdbach — 51.41°N, 8.68°EWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WDaihua — 25.73°N, 106.37°EDaihua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EMilldale Limestone — 53.13°N, 1.53°WMilldale Limestone — 53.05°N, 1.69°WLodgepole — 46.96°N, 110.49°WLodgepole — 45.19°N, 111.95°WLodgepole — 45.10°N, 110.79°WLake Valley — 32.90°N, 105.82°WLake Valley — 32.83°N, 105.83°WLake Valley — 32.73°N, 107.57°WLake Valley — 36.09°N, 108.16°WLisen — 49.22°N, 16.75°ELisen — 49.20°N, 16.63°EChouteau — 37.46°N, 89.25°WChouteau — 38.95°N, 92.33°WChouteau — 38.98°N, 92.56°WChouteau — 38.82°N, 92.39°WChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 29.91°N, 106.52°EChangxing — 29.80°N, 106.45°EChangxing — 24.82°N, 113.60°EChangxing — 26.61°N, 107.22°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 30.13°N, 106.45°EPal Limestone — 47.00°N, 13.00°EGleitsch — 50.67°N, 11.37°EGleitsch — 47.73°N, 7.87°EGleitsch — 50.63°N, 11.38°EStockum — 51.35°N, 7.60°EStockum — 51.33°N, 7.87°EStockum — 51.27°N, 7.07°EStockum — 51.49°N, 8.35°E

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The named rock units Phillipsiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 301 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 252 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phillipsiidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phillipsiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,576 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,028 sites for Phillipsiidae, and this reads 240 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

300 references

Each of the 1,871 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. 288 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 Phillipsiidae

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Apokryltaros
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Phillipsiidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. (Oehlert 1886)