Permophorus tropidophorus
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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 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
11 occurrences of Permophorus tropidophorus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous91%
- Permian9%
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
7 formations
- Laborcita Formation3
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group2
- Krebs Formation · Cherokee Group1
- Agglomeratic Slate Formation1
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
- Pottsville Formation1
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The named rock units Permophorus tropidophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Permophorus tropidophorus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Permophorus tropidophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Parajuresania nebrascensis6 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus5 sites
- Strobeus paludinaeformis5 sites
- Wilkingia terminale5 sites
- Cymatospira montfortianus4 sites
- Derbyia crassa4 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina4 sites
- Goniasma lasallense4 sites
- Parallelodon obsoletus4 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Euphemites carbonarius3 sites
- Hypergonia percostata3 sites
- Jedria meeki3 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi3 sites
- Paleyoldia glabra3 sites
- Prodentalium sublaeve3 sites
- Retispira3 sites
- Retispira tenuilineata3 sites
- Soleniscus3 sites
- Yochelsonellisa eximia3 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferus2 sites
- Acharax radiata2 sites
- Allorisma costatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Permophorus tropidophorus, 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- Some pelecypods and scaphopods from the Lower Wolfcampian (basal Permian) Laborcita Formation3
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri3
- Dixon, 19561
- New fossils from the Agglomerate Slate of Kashmir1
- Pottsville fauna of Ohio1
- The fossils of the Conemaugh Formation of Ohio1
- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.1
Each of the 11 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 tropidophorus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Permophorus tropidophorus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1875)