Phestia speluncaria

Phestia speluncaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhestiaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya283.9 Mya251.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Phestia speluncaria 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

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

8 formations

Ford — 54.97°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WLekvorkuta — 67.68°N, 64.18°ENaujoji Akmené Suite — 54.50°N, 25.13°EDangchong — 27.09°N, 113.23°EShadrovskaya — 71.35°N, 52.36°ESchuchert Dal — 74.42°N, 20.06°WZechstein — 51.08°N, 15.87°EProductus Shales — 30.25°N, 80.82°E

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The named rock units Phestia speluncaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phestia speluncaria and its relatives

Permian

Where Phestia speluncaria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Phestia speluncaria, 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 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. 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 Phestia speluncaria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Phestia speluncaria 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 itPhestia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geinitz 1848)