Piltonia

Piltonia

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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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 335.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 1 occurrence358–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–356 Mya — about 1 occurrence356–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–353 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–349 Mya — about 1 occurrence349–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–347 Mya — about 1 occurrence347–347 Mya — about 1 occurrence347–346 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353.7 Mya339.9 Mya359.4 Mya335.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Piltonia 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

20 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

14 formations

Lodgepole — 45.10°N, 110.79°WHastière — 50.50°N, 4.75°EHastière — 50.27°N, 4.92°EHastière — 50.47°N, 4.87°EPerna — 39.42°N, 6.67°WHopedale Limestones — 53.13°N, 1.53°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°WNew Providence Shale — 35.93°N, 89.72°WLeffe — 50.45°N, 5.28°EWaulsort — 50.67°N, 4.17°ELake Valley — 32.73°N, 107.57°WLisen — 49.22°N, 16.75°EPalate — 51.45°N, 2.63°WShirehampton — 51.45°N, 2.63°WCuyahoga — 41.03°N, 82.02°WMission Canyon — 45.10°N, 110.79°W

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

Piltonia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Piltonia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Piltonia, 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

11 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Piltonia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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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. Goldring 1955