Punctatites aequiperforatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PunctatitesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254.14 Mya201.4 Mya261 Mya198 Mya

2 occurrences of Punctatites aequiperforatus 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

2 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

2 formations

Julfa — 38.94°N, 45.58°EScheibelberg — 47.62°N, 12.58°E

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The named rock units Punctatites aequiperforatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Punctatites aequiperforatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Punctatites aequiperforatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Punctatites aequiperforatus, 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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Punctatites aequiperforatus 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 Punctatites aequiperforatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Punctatites aequiperforatus 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd 1976