Palaeostylus

Palaeostylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonemidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 18 of 91 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 73 of 91 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 5 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 5 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–296 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 5 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 5 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 6 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 6 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 6 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 13 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 8 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 5 occurrences339.9 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

91 occurrences of Palaeostylus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

91 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

33 formations

Heshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°ESisophon — 13.60°N, 102.95°ESisophon — 13.05°N, 103.06°ESisophon — 13.00°N, 103.00°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°ENemda — 57.42°N, 48.94°ELoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°ESupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WPutnam Hill — 40.93°N, 81.08°WPutnam Hill — 40.48°N, 81.45°WVerkhnii Uslon — 55.37°N, 49.08°EVerkhnii Uslon — 55.79°N, 48.96°EAllegheny — 40.69°N, 81.24°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WGlenshaw — 40.00°N, 81.72°WChangxing — 22.42°N, 107.70°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WYeso — 33.00°N, 106.63°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WRustler — 31.61°N, 104.23°WBluff Creek — 31.58°N, 99.23°WAlvy Creek — 36.80°N, 84.55°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°W

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The named rock units Palaeostylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeostylus and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeostylus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

977 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Palaeostylus, 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

32 references

Each of the 91 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. 20 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 Palaeostylus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthonemidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansuy 1914