Palaeofavosites primus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleofavositesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Palaeofavosites primus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
8 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Palaeofavosites primus 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.
Palaeofavosites primus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Palaeofavosites primus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Mesofavosites fleximurinus5 sites
- Palaeofavosites limbergensis5 sites
- Palaeofavosites hystrix4 sites
- Palaeofavosites mirus4 sites
- Palaeofavosites paulus4 sites
- Mesofavosites dualis3 sites
- Mesofavosites similis3 sites
- Palaeofavosites balticus3 sites
- Palaeofavosites dagoensis3 sites
- Palaeofavosites schmidti3 sites
- Halysites approximata2 sites
- Mesofavosites fortis2 sites
- Palaeofavosites felix2 sites
- Palaeofavosites forbesiformis2 sites
- Palaeofavosites hirtus2 sites
- Palaeofavosites mysticus2 sites
- Clathrodictyon turritum1 site
- Codonophyllum tubaeformis1 site
- Cyathactis balticus1 site
- Ecclimadictyon laminaeungulatum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum1 site
- Favosites antiquus1 site
- Palaeofavosites porosus1 site
- Paliphyllum soshkinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeofavosites primus, 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 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Palaeofavosites primus 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 Palaeofavosites primus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeofavosites primus 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 itPaleofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1951