Pentameroides subrectus

Pentameroides subrectus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentameroidesPBDB
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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439.1 Mya426.2 Mya

14 occurrences of Pentameroides subrectus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

14 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

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WJupiter — 49.07°N, 62.25°WJupiter — 49.23°N, 63.03°WFossil Hill — 45.83°N, 82.33°WVik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°W

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

Pentameroides subrectus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pentameroides subrectus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pentameroides subrectus, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 Pentameroides subrectus

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Hall and Clarke 1892)