Phyllocheilus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpagodinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Phyllocheilus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
5 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
- Zohar Formation · Arad Group3
- Dhahab Formation · Azab Group1
- Mughanniyya Formation · Azab Group1
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The named rock units Phyllocheilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phyllocheilus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Phyllocheilus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata2 sites
- Nummocalcar (Platybasis)2 sites
- Bactroptyxis1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Daghanirhynchia1 site
- Globularia hemisphaerica1 site
- Monsardithyris1 site
- Naricopsina1 site
- Nerinella hatirensis1 site
- Pholadomya lirata1 site
- Procerithium1 site
- Procerithium deserti1 site
- Pseudomelania1 site
- Purpuroidea1 site
- Quadrinervus1 site
- Retusa1 site
- Sphriganaria subcircularis1 site
- Tubithyris chouberti1 site
- Zygopleura goldbergi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phyllocheilus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Callovian gastropods from Hamakhtesh Hagadol (southern Israel)3
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the benthic macroinvertebrate fauna from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern Jordan2
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phyllocheilus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHarpagodinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1868