Palmatolepis minuta

Palmatolepis minuta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalmatolepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 237 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 160 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 160 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 155 of 160 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 160 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 160 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 160 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 160 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 160 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–376 Mya — about 5 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 86 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 55 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 9 occurrences354–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–340 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences319–311 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–261 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372.15 Mya – 368.5 Mya447 Mya233 Mya

160 occurrences of Palmatolepis minuta on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

160 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

13 formations

Wuzhishan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EKrtiny Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EEvtropina — 62.73°N, 54.38°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EWoodford — 33.17°N, 103.72°WWoodford — 34.90°N, 102.78°WMarhouma — 30.23°N, 2.41°WMarhouma — 29.95°N, 2.10°WRongxian — 24.98°N, 109.98°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EToc Tat — 22.23°N, 106.18°EBan Cai — 21.18°N, 105.07°EXom Nha — 17.90°N, 105.82°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°E

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The named rock units Palmatolepis minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmatolepis minuta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palmatolepis minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Palmatolepis minuta, 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

17 references

Each of the 160 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. 5 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 Palmatolepis minuta

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

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 itPalmatolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Mehl 1933