Pachytilodia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StellispongiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
7 occurrences of Pachytilodia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Pachytilodia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachytilodia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pachytilodia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Cyclothyris5 sites
- Ancistrocrania4 sites
- Anthophyllum4 sites
- Cyathidium depressum4 sites
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata4 sites
- Metopaster4 sites
- Pomatoceros4 sites
- Praelacazella4 sites
- Spondylus4 sites
- Terebratulina chrysalis4 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata3 sites
- Cheilostomata3 sites
- Glomerula3 sites
- Isocrinus3 sites
- Moltkia foveolata3 sites
- Nautilorhynchus simplex3 sites
- Neritopsis3 sites
- Pollicipes glaber3 sites
- Remesimetra discoidalis3 sites
- Scalpellum3 sites
- Synhelia gibbosa3 sites
- Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)3 sites
- Tubuliporata3 sites
- Atreta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pachytilodia, 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- Late Cretaceous nautilid beaks from near-shore/shallow water deposits of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic)3
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)2
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Pachytilodia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pachytilodia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStellispongiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878