Pattersonia

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Sits inside

PattersoniidaePBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Amphidiscosa

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Amphidiscosa

Motility

stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amphidiscosa

Vision

blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida

Environment

marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

• Ordovician50%
• Permian50%

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.

Where Pattersonia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician. Draw the map

• Bellerophontoidea3 sites
• Conularia3 sites
• Hindia3 sites
• Monticulipora3 sites
• Nuculites3 sites
• Achatella2 sites
• Ambonychia2 sites
• Amplexopora2 sites
• Arthropoma2 sites
• Atactoporella2 sites
• Berenicea2 sites
• Bythopora2 sites
• Carneyella2 sites
• Ceramoporella2 sites
• Ceratocephala2 sites
• Corynotrypa2 sites
• Cryptolithus2 sites
• Ctenodonta2 sites
• Cyclocystoides2 sites
• Cyclonema2 sites
• Cyclora2 sites
• Cymatonota2 sites
• Cyrtolites2 sites
• Dekayia2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pattersonia, 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.

• Microfacies and depositional structure of allochthonous carbonate base-of-slope deposits: The Late Permian Pietra di Salomone megablock, Sosio Valley (Western Sicily)Flügel et al., 1991 · Facies · journal article2
• The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati RegionDalve, 1948 · University Museum, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati · journal article2
• Sul Permiano di Sicilia (fossili del calcare con Fusulina di Palazzo Adriano non descritti dal Prof. G. Gemmellaro conservati nel mio privato gabinetto)de Gregorio, 1930 · Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie · serial monograph2
• Brachiospongidae: a memoir on a group of Silurian spongesBeecher, 1889 · Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University · journal article2

Each of the 8 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.

What may have been alongside itPattersoniidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.