Petalaxis maccoyanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetalaxisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
14 occurrences of Petalaxis maccoyanus 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
14 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
11 formations
- Clogrenan Formation3
- Idmarrach Formation2
- Great Scar Limestone Formation · Lower Limestone Group1
- Hawes Limestone I Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- Hardrow Scar Limestone III Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- Simonstone Limestone IV Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Petalaxis maccoyanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petalaxis maccoyanus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Petalaxis maccoyanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Lithostrotion decipiens7 sites
- Diphyphyllum6 sites
- Syringopora6 sites
- Archaediscus5 sites
- Lithostrotion4 sites
- Lithostrotion junceum4 sites
- Tetrataxis4 sites
- Endothyra bowmani3 sites
- Gigantoproductus3 sites
- Orobias3 sites
- Siphonodendron irregulare3 sites
- Siphonodendron junceum3 sites
- Siphonodendron pauciradiale3 sites
- Ammodiscus incertus2 sites
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus2 sites
- Aulokoninckophyllum carinatum2 sites
- Aulophyllum2 sites
- Axophyllum2 sites
- Chaetetes2 sites
- Chaetetidae2 sites
- Clisiophyllum2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Dibunophyllum bipartitum2 sites
- Dibunophyllum bipartitum bipartitum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Petalaxis maccoyanus, 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- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire4
- Late Visean rugose coral faunas from South-Eastern Ireland: composition, depositional setting and palaeoecology of Siphonodendron biostromes2
- Serpukhovian coral assemblages from Idmarrach and Tirhela Formations (Adarouch, Morocco)1
- Corals of the Upper Visean microbial-sponge-bryozoan-coral bioherm and related strata of Kongul Yayla (Taurides, South Turkey)1
- Late Viséan coral fringing reef at Tiouinine (Morocco): implications for the role of rugose corals as building organisms in the Mississippian1
- Rugose corals from the Upper Visean (Carboniferous) of the Jerada Massif (NE Morocco): taxonomy, biostratigraphy, facies and palaeobiogeography1
- Comparisons of Rugose corals from the Upper Visean of SW Spain and Ireland: implications for improved resolution in Late Mississippian coral biostratigraphy1
- Preliminary data on the coral distribution in the Upper Visean (Mississippian) succession from Adarouch area (NE Central Morocco)1
- The coral fauna of the Holkerian/Asbian boundary stratotype section (Carboniferous) at Little Asby Scar (Cumbria, England) and implications for boundary1
- Biostratigraphical dating of Upper Visean limestones (NW Ireland) using foraminiferans, calcareous algae and rugose corals1
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. 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
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No picture of Petalaxis maccoyanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Petalaxis maccoyanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petalaxis maccoyanus 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 itPetalaxis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)