Pachytheca

Searched as Pachytheca indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Pachytheca as the accepted name.

No picture of Pachytheca was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pachytheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChaetetinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chaetetida
Life habit
epifaunal, gregarious, clonalPBDB, for Chaetetida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chaetetida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 33 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 33 occurrencesSilurian — about 7 of 33 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 25 of 33 occurrencesDevonian524–519 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences519–514 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–418 Mya — about 3 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–408 Mya — about 4 occurrences408–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–389 Mya — about 4 occurrences389–384 Mya — about 8 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences516 Mya387.95 Mya524 Mya380 Mya

33 occurrences of Pachytheca 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

33 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

25 formations

Hanonet — 50.05°N, 4.48°EQuy Dat — 17.90°N, 105.82°ESt. Maughans — 52.00°N, 2.00°WRushall — 52.00°N, 2.00°WDryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°WSenni bed — 51.77°N, 2.98°WSenni Beds — 51.95°N, 3.38°WStrathmore — 56.25°N, 4.23°WKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°EFrankelryggen — 78.00°N, 20.00°EGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.78°N, 5.45°EGrès de Wepion — 50.55°N, 5.68°EGrès d'Acoz — 50.58°N, 5.97°EYarrimie — 30.95°S, 150.87°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°ECampbellton — 48.03°N, 66.42°WBattery Point — 48.77°N, 64.38°WGrès du Bois d'Ausse — 50.59°N, 5.98°EFreilingen — 50.32°N, 6.68°EAhbach — 50.32°N, 6.72°ELo Son — 20.98°N, 106.57°EYurtus — 41.15°N, 80.25°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°E

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The named rock units Pachytheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachytheca and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pachytheca and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pachytheca, 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

20 references

Each of the 33 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Pachytheca was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pachytheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pachytheca 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 itChaetetinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlüter 1885