Permophorus subcostatus

Permophorus subcostatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PermophorusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Permophorus
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Permophorus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Permophorus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 18 of 26 occurrencesPermian320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307.4 Mya276.8 Mya320 Mya264 Mya

26 occurrences of Permophorus subcostatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

26 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

16 formations

Grenola Limestone — 38.13°N, 96.33°WGrenola Limestone — 39.90°N, 95.91°WGrenola Limestone — 38.37°N, 96.63°WGrenola Limestone — 37.64°N, 96.49°WGrenola Limestone — 38.04°N, 96.31°WGrenola Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.57°WJanesville Shale — 39.38°N, 96.29°WJanesville Shale — 39.11°N, 96.45°WJanesville Shale — 38.93°N, 96.05°WFalls City Limestone — 39.11°N, 96.40°WFalls City Limestone — 37.55°N, 96.45°WGrenola — 37.24°N, 96.57°WGrenola — 37.11°N, 96.62°WEskridge Shale — 39.27°N, 96.57°WEskridge — 39.49°N, 96.29°WForaker Limestone — 39.06°N, 96.13°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WSama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WNaco — 34.33°N, 111.12°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WLane Shale — 39.31°N, 94.92°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WDrum Limestone — 37.77°N, 95.22°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°W

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

Permophorus subcostatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Permophorus subcostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Permophorus subcostatus, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Permophorus subcostatus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Permophorus subcostatus 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 itPermophorus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1866)