Glaphurochiton

Glaphurochiton is a genus of fossil chitons known from the Mazon Creek biota.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidopleuridaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPermian344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.4 Mya290.1 Mya344 Mya282 Mya

9 occurrences of Glaphurochiton 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

9 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

7 formations

Putnam Hill — 40.93°N, 81.08°WPutnam Hill — 40.44°N, 81.70°WPutnam Hill — 40.48°N, 81.45°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WVanport — 39.07°N, 82.45°WRiepetown — 39.58°N, 115.52°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WFort Scott Limestone — 40.00°N, 88.00°WPine Creek — 40.53°N, 80.20°W

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

Glaphurochiton and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Glaphurochiton and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Glaphurochiton, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Glaphurochiton 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.

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 itLepidopleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1910