Palaeoglossa

Palaeoglossa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ObolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 147 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 318.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 149 of 162 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 162 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 162 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 162 occurrencesCarboniferous480–475 Mya — about 5 occurrences475–469 Mya — about 11 occurrences469–464 Mya — about 19 occurrences464–458 Mya — about 60 occurrences458–453 Mya — about 27 occurrences453–447 Mya — about 24 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 9 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences359–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471.3 Mya323.4 Mya480 Mya315 Mya

162 occurrences of Palaeoglossa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

162 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

50 formations

Rorrington Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMeadowtown Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMytton Flags — 52.67°N, 2.00°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.58°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WBetton Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WWeston Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WDawan — 30.89°N, 111.41°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDenley Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WSpy Wood Grit — 52.67°N, 2.00°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.88°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.30°N, 76.68°WValhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WSugar River Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WSugar River Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.42°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WLaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WNod Glas — 53.00°N, 4.00°WCheney Longville — 52.00°N, 3.00°WMytton Flags and Tankerville — 53.00°N, 3.00°W

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The named rock units Palaeoglossa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoglossa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeoglossa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Palaeoglossa, 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

38 references

Each of the 162 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. 26 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 content1

Picture of Palaeoglossa

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

No 3D scan of Palaeoglossa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cockerell 1911)