Pentamerella

Pentamerella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentamerellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 154 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 154 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 152 of 154 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 154 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 15 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 33 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 37 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 43 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 20 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419.62 Mya382.31 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

154 occurrences of Pentamerella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

154 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

32 formations

Onondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.97°N, 76.14°WOnondaga — 42.18°N, 73.95°WOnondaga — 42.08°N, 73.97°WOnondaga — 41.93°N, 74.03°WOnondaga — 42.59°N, 74.93°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.04°WOnondaga — 42.90°N, 76.02°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.70°N, 74.92°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WDenay Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WDenay Limestone — 39.55°N, 116.28°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WAmherstburg — 43.88°N, 81.30°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 78.95°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WCoralville — 42.50°N, 92.00°WCoralville — 41.67°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WPotter Farm — 45.22°N, 83.66°WPetoskey — 45.29°N, 84.99°WPetoskey — 42.29°N, 84.99°WCedar Valley Limestone — 38.71°N, 91.89°WNorway Point — 45.22°N, 83.66°WGravel Point — 45.31°N, 85.29°WGravel Point — 45.35°N, 84.99°WGravel Point — 45.36°N, 85.16°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WThunder Bay — 45.22°N, 83.66°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WFerron Point — 45.15°N, 83.33°WFerron Point — 45.20°N, 83.40°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WSrbsko — 49.92°N, 14.07°ETelegraph Canyon — 38.87°N, 117.92°WHorn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WSafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°E

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The named rock units Pentamerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentamerella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pentamerella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

751 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Pentamerella, 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

35 references

Each of the 154 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. 23 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 Pentamerella

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

No 3D scan of Pentamerella 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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What may have been alongside itPentamerellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.