Petasmatherus opulus
No picture of Petasmatherus opulus 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 Petasmatherus opulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetasmatherusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Petasmatherus opulus 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
17 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Petasmatherus opulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petasmatherus opulus and its relatives
PermianWhere Petasmatherus opulus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
396 taxa- Liosotella wordensis15 sites
- Cyclacantharia kingorum14 sites
- Echinosteges tuberculatus13 sites
- Meekella skenoides13 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) extensus11 sites
- Xenosteges quadratus11 sites
- Composita parasulcata10 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata10 sites
- Derbyia filosa10 sites
- Derbyia pannucia10 sites
- Heteralosia hystricula10 sites
- Pseudodielasma10 sites
- Composita enormis9 sites
- Echinauris lateralis9 sites
- Neophricadothyris conara9 sites
- Rhynchopora palumbula9 sites
- Derbyia texta8 sites
- Orbicoelia tholiaphor8 sites
- Paucispinifera auriculata8 sites
- Cartorhium retusum7 sites
- Collemataria elongata7 sites
- Dielasma7 sites
- Dyoros (Lissosia) concavus7 sites
- Eolyttonia progressa7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Petasmatherus opulus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 17 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Petasmatherus opulus 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 Petasmatherus opulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petasmatherus opulus 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 itPetasmatherus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969