Paladin

Paladin

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DitomopyginaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 116 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 113 of 116 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 116 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 3 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 25 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 30 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 10 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 12 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 9 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 4 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 4 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346.7 Mya264.28 Mya361 Mya258 Mya

116 occurrences of Paladin 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

116 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

29 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.00°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.19°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.01°WFayetteville — 35.75°N, 95.37°WFayetteville — 36.23°N, 93.11°WWatahomigi — 36.50°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 35.90°N, 113.56°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.30°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WBaird — 40.80°N, 122.29°WBaird — 40.94°N, 122.27°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 42.64°N, 108.71°WAmsden — 43.51°N, 107.46°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WHelms — 31.84°N, 106.08°WVegamian — 43.13°N, 5.03°WVegamian — 42.95°N, 5.50°WVegamian — 42.97°N, 5.40°WHuai Luang — 17.29°N, 101.82°EBragdon — 40.94°N, 122.27°WBragdon and Baird — 40.88°N, 121.66°WMonsal Dale Limestones — 53.22°N, 1.71°WCameron Creek — 46.37°N, 109.18°WMauch Chunk — 41.03°N, 79.62°WParkwood — 34.45°N, 87.75°WPella — 41.33°N, 92.38°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WErdbach Limestone — 51.28°N, 6.83°EAnhee — 50.33°N, 4.80°EVisé — 50.27°N, 4.92°EWaulsort — 50.22°N, 4.87°EBelden Shale — 39.18°N, 106.16°WBloyd — 35.73°N, 94.48°WShunner Fell Limestone — 54.37°N, 2.22°WMoleen — 38.92°N, 115.83°W

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

Paladin and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paladin and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Paladin, 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

26 references

Each of the 116 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. 14 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

Media content2

Picture of Paladin

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1936