Pilletina

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcastidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 414.6 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Pilletina 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
14 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
5 formations
- Saint-Cenere Formation8
- l'Armorique Formation2
- Lebanza Formation2
- Nogueras Formation1
- Reun Ar C'Hrank Formation1
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The named rock units Pilletina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pilletina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pilletina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Ctenochonetes6 sites
- Acastella4 sites
- Hollardina3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Icriodus3 sites
- Iridistrophia3 sites
- Paracryphaeus jonesi3 sites
- Protacanthina3 sites
- Acastoides2 sites
- Armoricochitina ceneratiensis2 sites
- Belenopyge2 sites
- Celtanoplia2 sites
- Eucharitina2 sites
- Hysterolites2 sites
- Margachitina2 sites
- Mclearnites2 sites
- Parahomalonotus gervillei2 sites
- Pseudocryphaeus michelini2 sites
- Pseudocryphaeus praejonesi2 sites
- Semicaplinoplia beatrixae2 sites
- Acastella hollardi1 site
- Acastella latimarginata1 site
- Acastella rouaulti1 site
- Acastella tiro1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pilletina, 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
4 references- La limite Lochkovien-Praguien (Devonien inferieur) dans le Massif armoricain: especes index et correlations10
- Devonian trilobites of the southern Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) with a systematic description of the Asteropyginae2
- Incursion Hercynienne dans les faunes rhenanes du Devonien inferieur de La Rade de Brest (Massif Armoricain)1
- Die Acastavinae und Asteropyginae (Trilobita) Keltiberiens (NE-Spanien)1
Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Pilletina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itAcastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haas 1970