Pleurophorus occidentalis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PermophorusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Permophorus
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Permophorus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Permophorus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPermian314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306 Mya264.28 Mya314 Mya259 Mya

6 occurrences of Pleurophorus occidentalis 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

6 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

4 formations

Cabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WAdmiral — 33.59°N, 98.96°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.83°W

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

Pleurophorus occidentalis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pleurophorus occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleurophorus occidentalis, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Pleurophorus occidentalis 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 itPermophorus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1864)