Piltonia fryi

Piltonia fryi

The Field Museum of Natural History · 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
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.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359.4 Mya353.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Piltonia fryi 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

3 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

3 formations

Palate — 51.45°N, 2.63°WShirehampton — 51.45°N, 2.63°WHastière — 50.47°N, 4.87°E

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

Piltonia fryi and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Piltonia fryi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Piltonia fryi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 Piltonia fryi

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Piltonia fryi 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. Goldring 1958