Pistoprion

No picture of Pistoprion 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 Pistoprion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EunicemorphaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 19 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 14 of 19 occurrencesSilurian451–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences449.9 Mya425 Mya451.1 Mya422.1 Mya

19 occurrences of Pistoprion 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

19 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

6 formations

Kopanina — 49.94°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.17°ESaunja — 58.84°N, 24.98°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°EKorgessaare — 58.84°N, 24.98°EMoe — 58.84°N, 24.98°EEllis Bay — 49.84°N, 64.45°W

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The named rock units Pistoprion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pistoprion and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pistoprion and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pistoprion, 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

3 references

Each of the 19 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 Pistoprion 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 Pistoprion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pistoprion 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 itEunicemorpha through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.