Palaeostylus acuminatus

No picture of Palaeostylus acuminatus 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 Palaeostylus acuminatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermian348–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339.9 Mya266.9 Mya348 Mya263 Mya

3 occurrences of Palaeostylus acuminatus 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

3 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

3 formations

"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EAmb — 32.63°N, 71.75°EHoukou — 39.72°N, 121.75°E

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The named rock units Palaeostylus acuminatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeostylus acuminatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeostylus acuminatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeostylus acuminatus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Palaeostylus acuminatus 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 Palaeostylus acuminatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeostylus acuminatus 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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What may have been alongside itPalaeostylus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1832)