Pulchratia

Pulchratia is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived in marine habitats during the Upper Carboniferous period. Its fossils have been found in North America.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
JuresaniiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya274.4 Mya325 Mya266 Mya

12 occurrences of Pulchratia 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

12 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

Watahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 36.01°N, 113.84°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WBluff Creek — 31.58°N, 99.23°WSausbee — 35.63°N, 95.06°WTakhandit — 65.18°N, 141.70°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°W

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

Pulchratia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pulchratia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pulchratia, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Pulchratia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pulchratia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itJuresaniini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.