Phymatopleura

Phymatopleura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymatopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 121 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 82 of 121 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 38 of 121 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 121 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences360–356 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 18 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 18 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 23 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 12 occurrences297–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 9 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 11 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya367 Mya250 Mya

121 occurrences of Phymatopleura 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

121 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

46 formations

Graham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 31.53°N, 99.27°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.24°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WWewoka — 35.62°N, 96.02°WFord — 54.88°N, 1.39°WFord — 54.83°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.70°N, 1.47°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WWann — 36.57°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WWann — 36.53°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.90°WWargal — 32.55°N, 72.40°EWargal — 32.65°N, 72.58°EWargal — 32.48°N, 71.88°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.22°EChhidru — 32.43°N, 72.08°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.97°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 71.92°EWood Siding — 38.75°N, 95.97°WWood Siding — 37.46°N, 96.41°WRoot Shale — 38.75°N, 95.99°WRoot Shale — 37.24°N, 96.53°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WBrad — 33.24°N, 98.08°WBrad — 32.85°N, 98.12°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.84°N, 94.71°WPawnee — 35.02°N, 96.38°WAltamont — 40.70°N, 90.01°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WExline Limestone — 39.00°N, 93.95°WShale Hill — 34.96°N, 96.52°WIola — 36.14°N, 96.24°WOread — 36.52°N, 96.37°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WPillsbury Shale — 37.30°N, 96.47°WJanesville Shale — 37.24°N, 96.56°W

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The named rock units Phymatopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phymatopleura and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phymatopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Phymatopleura, 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

34 references

Each of the 121 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 Phymatopleura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phymatopleura 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 itPhymatopleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1939)