Piltonia balor
No picture of Piltonia balor was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Piltonia balor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PiltoniaPBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 353.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Piltonia balor 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Piltonia balor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Piltonia balor and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Piltonia balor and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1 taxon- Moschoglossis rhiannon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Piltonia balor, 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- Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 9. Piltonia und Nachträge1
- Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 8. Mahaiella, Paladin und Witryides1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Piltonia balor was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Piltonia balor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Piltonia balor 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 itPiltonia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hahn et al. 1987