Permophorus

Searched as Pleurophorus sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Permophorus as the accepted name.

Permophorus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 334 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 129 ka.

Devonian — about 0 of 134 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 32 of 134 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 81 of 134 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 134 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 134 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 134 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 134 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 134 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 134 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 134 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 134 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 134 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 5 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 14 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 10 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 10 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 28 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 29 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 19 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 8 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences335.4 Mya774 ka366 Mya0 Mya

134 occurrences of Permophorus 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

134 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

47 formations

Blaine — 35.73°N, 98.16°WBlaine — 35.84°N, 98.30°WBlaine — 35.09°N, 98.73°WBlaine — 34.85°N, 99.68°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WDog Creek — 34.65°N, 99.82°WDog Creek — 34.37°N, 100.02°WDog Creek — 34.70°N, 100.24°WDog Creek — 34.49°N, 100.30°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WFord — 54.97°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WKapp Toscana — 74.42°N, 19.16°EDe Geerdalen — 77.62°N, 14.98°EDe Geerdalen — 78.29°N, 16.56°EDe Geerdalen — 78.10°N, 13.88°EYeso — 34.18°N, 106.76°WCherokee Shale — 37.23°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.05°N, 95.11°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WSama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WDinwoody — 43.33°N, 111.25°WWegener Halvo — 74.03°N, 21.70°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WPhosphoria — 42.67°N, 108.68°WBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WDouglas — 39.04°N, 95.39°WMcAlester — 35.58°N, 95.32°WHeath — 46.93°N, 109.28°W

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The named rock units Permophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Permophorus and its relatives

Permian

Where Permophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 430 sites for Permophorus, and this reads 240 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

53 references

Each of the 134 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. 41 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 Permophorus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Permophorus 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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