Paucicrura corpulenta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaucicruraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Paucicrura corpulenta 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
9 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
4 formations
- Scales Shale Formation · Maquoketa Group5
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Scales Formation · Maquoketa Group1
- Ely Springs Formation1
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The named rock units Paucicrura corpulenta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paucicrura corpulenta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paucicrura corpulenta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Megamyonia unicostata7 sites
- Austinella kankakensis6 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa6 sites
- Heterorthina emacerata6 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax6 sites
- Isotelus susae6 sites
- Orbiculoidea6 sites
- Plaesiomys proavita6 sites
- Rafinesquina deltoidea6 sites
- Strophomena trilobata6 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria5 sites
- Onniella5 sites
- Plaesiomys subquadratus5 sites
- Thaerodonta recedens5 sites
- Bumastus orbicaudatus4 sites
- Ceraurinus icarus4 sites
- Isotelus gigas4 sites
- Lingulasma philomela4 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa4 sites
- Oxoplecia4 sites
- Pseudolingula iowensis4 sites
- Rafinesquina4 sites
- Rafinesquina trentonensis4 sites
- Sowerbyella minnesotensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paucicrura corpulenta, 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
5 references- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area3
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities3
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
- Repetitive benthonic community in the Maquoketa Fm. (Ordovician) of Minnesota1
- Geology and ore deposits of the Darwin quadrangle, Inyo County, California1
Each of the 9 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 Paucicrura corpulenta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itPaucicrura through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sardeson 1892)