Pringlia birtwelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PringliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Xiphosurida
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.7 Mya and 316.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pringlia birtwelli 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Lower Coal Measures Formation · Pennine Coal Measures Group1
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The named rock units Pringlia birtwelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pringlia birtwelli and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pringlia birtwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- ? Platysoma sp.1 site
- ? Smithixerxes sp.1 site
- Annularia1 site
- Anthracaris1 site
- Anthraconaia fugax1 site
- Arthropleurida1 site
- Belinurus trilobitoides1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Carbonicola1 site
- Curvirimula aff. belgica1 site
- Curvirimula trapeziforma1 site
- Cyperites1 site
- Geralinura britannica1 site
- Insecta1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Lepidostrobus1 site
- Mariopteris1 site
- Naiadites1 site
- Neuropteris1 site
- Palaeocaris1 site
- Pecoperis sp.1 site
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)1 site
- Phalangiotarbus subovalis1 site
- Pleurocaris annulatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pringlia birtwelli, 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
2 references- Exceptionally preserved fossils from Bickershaw, Lancashire UK (Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian A (Langsettian))1
- Notes on some British Palaeozoic Crustacea belonging to the order Merostomata1
Each of the 2 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 Pringlia birtwelli 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 Pringlia birtwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pringlia birtwelli 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 itPringlia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodward 1872)