Paucijaculum samamithion
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaucijaculumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chaetognatha
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chaetognatha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chaetognatha
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paucijaculum samamithion 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group2
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The named rock units Paucijaculum samamithion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paucijaculum samamithion and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paucijaculum samamithion and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Eubleptus danielsi2 sites
- Amphibamus grandiceps1 site
- Archisymplectes rhothon1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Eoctonus miniatus1 site
- Eubrodia dabasinskasi1 site
- Eucaenus ovalis1 site
- Gerarus danielsi1 site
- Gerarus vetus1 site
- Gilpichthys greeni1 site
- Hexecontasoma carinatum1 site
- Mazonia woodiana1 site
- Paleocadmus1 site
- Paleocadmus pohli1 site
- Pipiscius zangerli1 site
- Poliochera gibbsi1 site
- Priapulites konecniorum1 site
- Prochoroptera calopteryx1 site
- Saundersites illinoisiensis1 site
- Schistoceratidae1 site
- Squirmarius testai1 site
- Srokalarva berthei1 site
- Stearoceras1 site
- Syntonoptera schucherti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paucijaculum samamithion, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Paucijaculum samamithion
- 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 of Paucijaculum samamithion was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaucijaculum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schram 1973