Paliphyllum ellisense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaliphyllumPBDB
- 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 most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paliphyllum ellisense 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Paliphyllum ellisense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paliphyllum ellisense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paliphyllum ellisense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Streptelasma affine3 sites
- Aulacera1 site
- Bodophyllum1 site
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Coolinia gamachiana1 site
- Eurogrewingkia pulchella1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Leptaena quadrilatera1 site
- Palaeophyllum1 site
- Palaophyllum clion1 site
- Primaspis1 site
- Salvadorea selecta1 site
- Streptelasma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paliphyllum ellisense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Rugose Corals of the Late Ordovician to Earliest Silurian Vauréal, Ellis Bay and Becscie Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec2
- Late Ordovician solitary rugose corals of the Stony Mountain Formation, southern Manitoba, and its equivalents1
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 Paliphyllum ellisense was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paliphyllum ellisense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPaliphyllum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Twenhofel 1928)