Pilophyllum

No picture of Pilophyllum was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pilophyllum itself, so it was not used. 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 Pilophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KyphophyllidaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 35 occurrencesSilurian — about 32 of 35 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 35 occurrencesDevonian446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya422.7 Mya445.8 Mya412.4 Mya

35 occurrences of Pilophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

35 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

12 formations

Ningqiang — 32.68°N, 106.05°ENingqiang — 32.66°N, 105.96°ENingqiang — 32.83°N, 106.29°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°EKunzhak — 39.25°N, 69.00°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ERoad River — 62.64°N, 124.97°WKonovka Suite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EGoloskov Subsuite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EXibiehe — 42.00°N, 110.00°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 22.98°E

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The named rock units Pilophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pilophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pilophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

389 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Pilophyllum, 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

12 references

Each of the 35 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 content0

No picture of Pilophyllum was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pilophyllum itself, so it was not used.

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 Pilophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pilophyllum 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 itKyphophyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1927