Pionodema minuscula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PionodemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Pionodema minuscula on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
16 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pionodema minuscula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pionodema minuscula and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pionodema minuscula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Anazyga recurvirostra15 sites
- Cryptophragmus antiquatus12 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria12 sites
- Orthoceras12 sites
- Strophomena incurvata12 sites
- Tetradium12 sites
- Calyptaulax7 sites
- Doleroides7 sites
- Escharopora7 sites
- Graptodictya7 sites
- Helicotoma granosa7 sites
- Illaenus7 sites
- Isochilina7 sites
- Krausella7 sites
- Leperditella7 sites
- Maclurina bigsbyi7 sites
- Omospira laticincta7 sites
- Orbignyella7 sites
- Phyllodictya frondosa7 sites
- Sowerbyella lebanonensis7 sites
- Stictopora nicholsoni7 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata7 sites
- Ancistrorhyncha5 sites
- Bathyurus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pionodema minuscula, 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
3 references- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia8
- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia7
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Pionodema minuscula 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 Pionodema minuscula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pionodema minuscula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPionodema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Willard 1928