Paolia vetusta

Paolia vetusta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaoliaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 320 Mya and 316.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320.5 Mya316.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Paolia vetusta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

1 formation

Mansfield — 38.56°N, 86.65°W

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The named rock units Paolia vetusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paolia vetusta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paolia vetusta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paolia vetusta, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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. 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 Paolia vetusta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paolia vetusta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPaolia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1871