Pentamerella arata

Pentamerella arata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentamerellaPBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 37 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 36 of 37 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 11 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 13 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419.62 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

37 occurrences of Pentamerella arata 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

37 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

5 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°WLogansport Limestone — 40.72°N, 86.22°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WSelinsgrove — 40.80°N, 75.64°WBois Blanc — 42.98°N, 78.64°W

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The named rock units Pentamerella arata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pentamerella arata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pentamerella arata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Pentamerella arata, 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

7 references

Each of the 37 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 Pentamerella arata

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pentamerella arata 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPentamerella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1841)