Pustula
Searched as Pustula cf. abbotti larga. The Paleobiology Database treats Pustula as the accepted name.
Pustula is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived during the Carboniferous period. It is the type genus of the subfamily Pustulinae. Its fossils have been found in Eurasia, North America and northern Africa.
No picture of Pustula 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 Pustula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PustulinaePBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pustula 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pustula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pustula and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pustula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,328 taxa- Spirifer32 sites
- Chonetes30 sites
- Linoproductus cora28 sites
- Brachythyris26 sites
- Cleiothyridina26 sites
- Dielasma25 sites
- Fenestella25 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus23 sites
- Leptagonia analoga23 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus21 sites
- Productus20 sites
- Schizophoria19 sites
- Aviculopecten18 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus17 sites
- Syringothyris17 sites
- Camarotoechia16 sites
- Crinoidea16 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus16 sites
- Kitakamithyris16 sites
- Polypora16 sites
- Eomarginifera15 sites
- Schuchertella15 sites
- Composita14 sites
- Dictyoclostus14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Pustula, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Pustula 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 Pustula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itPustulinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.