Pontisia
No picture of Pontisia 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 Pontisia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PontisiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
133 occurrences of Pontisia 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
133 occurrences- Carboniferous5%
- Permian95%
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
23 formations
- Cathedral Mountain Formation22
- Road Canyon Formation20
- Bone Spring Formation13
- Neal Ranch Formation12
- Skinner Ranch Formation10
- Hueco Formation8
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The named rock units Pontisia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pontisia and its relatives
PermianWhere Pontisia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,245 taxa- Derbyia33 sites
- Meekella calathica32 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys30 sites
- Derbyia laqueata28 sites
- Dielasma28 sites
- Composita27 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus27 sites
- Megousia auriculata26 sites
- Hustedia24 sites
- Echinauris irregularis23 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa23 sites
- Stenoscisma23 sites
- Texarina wordensis23 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus20 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata20 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata20 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata19 sites
- Echinauris19 sites
- Stenoscisma triquetrum19 sites
- Derbyia informis17 sites
- Diplanus lamellatus17 sites
- Hercosia uddeni17 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata16 sites
- Peniculauris subcostata16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Pontisia, 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
15 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI83
- Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV18
- Permian brachiopods from southern Thailand7
- Marine fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico5
- Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela)4
- Wolfcampian brachiopods from the Bird Spring Group, Wamp Spring area, Las Vegas Range, Clark County, Nevada3
- Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo3
- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico2
- A marine invertebrate fauna from the upper part of the Panther Seep Formation (earliest Wolfcampian) near Hembrillo Pass, San Andres Mountains, south-central New Mexico2
- Guadalupian brachiopods from western Taurus, Turkey1
- Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)1
- A biogeographically mixed late Guadalupian (late Middle Permian) brachiopod fauna from an exotic limestone block at Xiukang in Lhaze county, Tibet1
Each of the 133 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. 3 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
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No picture of Pontisia 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 Pontisia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pontisia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPontisiinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969