Punctaconchus midfordensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PunctaconchusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tentaculita
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Punctaconchus midfordensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Salperton Limestone Formation · Inferior Oolite Group1
- Lincolnshire Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Punctaconchus midfordensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Punctaconchus midfordensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Punctaconchus midfordensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Punctaconchus midfordensis, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Punctaconchus midfordensis 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 Punctaconchus midfordensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Punctaconchus midfordensis 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 itPunctaconchus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richardson 1907)