Pontisia kingi

Pontisia kingi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PontisiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 20 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences298.9 Mya293.52 Mya304.2 Mya289.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Pontisia kingi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

6 formations

Neal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.15°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.87°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WLenox Hills — 30.32°N, 103.22°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WPanther Seep — 32.92°N, 106.66°W

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

Pontisia kingi and its relatives

Permian

Where Pontisia kingi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pontisia kingi, 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

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 Pontisia kingi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pontisia kingi 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 itPontisia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976