Psilocamara

Psilocamara

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsilocamarinaePBDB
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 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

14 occurrences of Psilocamara 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

14 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

8 formations

Neal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.12°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.14°WTakhandit — 65.18°N, 141.70°WCattle Creek — 25.21°S, 148.78°ECapps — 33.30°N, 98.18°WFort Scott — 38.67°N, 90.32°WAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WMaping — 24.70°N, 105.22°ELiangshan — 24.70°N, 105.22°E

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The named rock units Psilocamara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psilocamara and its relatives

Permian

Where Psilocamara and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Psilocamara, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Psilocamara

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Psilocamara 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 itPsilocamarinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956