Palaeophyllum

Palaeophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathophylloididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 114 occurrencesOrdovician — about 87 of 114 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 27 of 114 occurrencesSilurian490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 4 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 24 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 14 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 16 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 13 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 4 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471.3 Mya426.7 Mya490 Mya421 Mya

114 occurrences of Palaeophyllum 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

114 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

52 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.62°N, 62.58°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.38°WSecond Value — 31.85°N, 106.48°WSecond Value — 32.97°N, 106.53°WJohnson Spring — 36.91°N, 118.07°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.51°N, 79.53°WAleman — 31.95°N, 106.48°WAleman — 31.78°N, 106.47°WAleman — 31.18°N, 104.77°WAleman — 31.90°N, 106.48°WBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.62°S, 146.37°EChasm Creek — 58.13°N, 94.77°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WWhittaker — 63.17°N, 127.97°WWhittaker — 62.70°N, 127.93°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.59°WGazelle — 41.43°N, 122.77°WVandon Limestone — 34.00°S, 149.00°EVandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WJifuke — 44.00°N, 83.00°EQuinton — 20.00°S, 145.00°EBighorn Dolomite — 44.88°N, 107.49°WManitoulin — 45.97°N, 81.93°WManitoulin — 45.73°N, 81.80°WKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°ELockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WLangoyen — 59.88°N, 10.59°EGoonumbla Volcanics — 33.04°S, 147.93°EQuondong Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°E

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The named rock units Palaeophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeophyllum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

575 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Palaeophyllum, 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

56 references

Each of the 114 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. 44 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 Palaeophyllum

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

No 3D scan of Palaeophyllum 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1858)