Pelmatozoa

Pelmatozoa was once a clade of Phylum Echinodermata. It included stalked and sedentary echinoderms. The main class of Pelmatozoa were the Crinoidea which includes sea lily and feather star.

Pelmatozoa

albert kok · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinodermataPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 25 of 124 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 75 of 124 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 124 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 124 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 124 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 124 occurrences544–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–510 Mya — about 1 occurrence510–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–494 Mya — about 6 occurrences494–485 Mya — about 15 occurrences485–477 Mya — about 9 occurrences477–469 Mya — about 14 occurrences469–460 Mya — about 11 occurrences460–452 Mya — about 9 occurrences452–444 Mya — about 23 occurrences444–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–427 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 5 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 4 occurrences411–402 Mya — about 2 occurrences402–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences509.7 Mya303.7 Mya544 Mya294 Mya

124 occurrences of Pelmatozoa 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

124 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

52 formations

Wenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WChatsworth — 22.00°S, 140.30°EChatsworth — 21.95°S, 140.33°EBadger Flat — 36.93°N, 118.07°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WShin Brook — 46.11°N, 68.61°WShin Brook — 46.19°N, 68.47°WShin Brook — 46.22°N, 68.39°WTumugol — 37.17°N, 129.02°ECampile — 53.44°N, 7.23°WCampile — 53.50°N, 7.17°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WNolichucky — 36.75°N, 82.25°WNolichucky — 36.65°N, 82.18°WWatahomigi — 36.01°N, 113.84°WWatahomigi — 35.80°N, 113.60°WJince — 49.00°N, 14.00°ESan Juan — 31.33°S, 68.55°WSan Juan — 30.50°S, 68.50°WDumugol — 35.55°N, 128.75°EDumugol — 36.58°N, 128.85°EAl Rose — 36.96°N, 118.09°WHunghuayuan — 31.21°N, 111.40°EHunghuayuan — 30.89°N, 111.39°ELenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EExsulans Limestone — 55.05°N, 15.03°EKalby marl — 55.02°N, 14.92°EAndrarum Limestone — 55.02°N, 14.92°EDaleje-Trebotov — 49.92°N, 14.07°ETonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°W

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The named rock units Pelmatozoa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pelmatozoa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pelmatozoa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,023 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Pelmatozoa, 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

53 references

Each of the 124 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. 41 further references are not listed. 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 Pelmatozoa

Credit
albert kok
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pelmatozoa 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leuckart 1848