Punctoprimitia

No picture of Punctoprimitia 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 Punctoprimitia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KloedenellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 13 occurrencesDevonian440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences432.9 Mya387.95 Mya440 Mya381 Mya

13 occurrences of Punctoprimitia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

13 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

3 formations

Moscow — 42.87°N, 78.83°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 43.00°N, 78.30°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WSilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WCosterfield Siltstone — 34.08°S, 151.02°E

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

Punctoprimitia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Punctoprimitia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Punctoprimitia, 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

Each of the 13 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 Punctoprimitia 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 Punctoprimitia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Punctoprimitia 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 itKloedenellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart and Hendrix 1936