Preverticillites columnella

Preverticillites columnella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PreverticillitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 237 Mya.

Permian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266.9 Mya241.464 Mya275.1 Mya236.3 Mya

14 occurrences of Preverticillites columnella 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

14 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

10 formations

Middle Shaly Facies — 33.38°N, 10.22°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°EDjebel Tebaga — 33.42°N, 10.17°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EWujiaping — 24.90°N, 105.15°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°ESkiathos — 38.85°N, 24.50°EAl Jil — 23.11°N, 58.31°EMaokou — 24.91°N, 105.13°E

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The named rock units Preverticillites columnella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Preverticillites columnella and its relatives

Permian

Where Preverticillites columnella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Preverticillites columnella, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Preverticillites columnella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPreverticillites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parona 1933)