Pseudophillipsia
Searched as Pseudophillipsia borissiaki martensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudophillipsia as the accepted name.
Pseudophillipsia is a genus of trilobites, notable for being one of the last members of the group before the extinction at the end of the Permian. It first appeared during the Pennsylvanian or Late Carboniferous. There are several species and this genus has a range spanning Eurasia.
Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DitomopyginaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pseudophillipsia 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Pseudophillipsia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudophillipsia and its relatives
PermianWhere Pseudophillipsia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
701 taxa- Spinomarginifera kueichowensis11 sites
- Juxathyris bisulcata7 sites
- Leptodus nobilis7 sites
- Orthothetina ruber7 sites
- Cathaysia chonetoides6 sites
- Prelissorhynchia pseudoutah6 sites
- Spinomarginifera alpha6 sites
- Uncinunellina timorensis6 sites
- Acanthopecten5 sites
- Acosarina minuta5 sites
- Araxathyris sinensis5 sites
- Edriosteges poyangensis5 sites
- Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) substrophomenoides5 sites
- Spinomarginifera chengyaoyenensis5 sites
- Tainoceras5 sites
- Crenispirifer alpheus4 sites
- Cruricella subspeciosa4 sites
- Derbyia schellwieni4 sites
- Eolyttonia tenuis4 sites
- Guizhoupecten regularis4 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis4 sites
- Juxathyris guizhouensis4 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) strophomenoides4 sites
- Oldhamina anshunensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Pseudophillipsia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Pseudophillipsia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jonathan Chen
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudophillipsia 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDitomopyginae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemmellaro 1890