Pedomphalella

Pedomphalella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CirculinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 29 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 20 of 20 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 20 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Pedomphalella 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

20 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

8 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Pedomphalella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pedomphalella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pedomphalella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pedomphalella, 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

2 references

Each of the 20 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 Pedomphalella

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

No 3D scan of Pedomphalella 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.