Punctomosea
No picture of Punctomosea 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 Punctomosea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BufinidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Punctomosea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Punctomosea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Punctomosea and its relatives
DevonianWhere Punctomosea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Bufina5 sites
- Euglyphella5 sites
- Hibbardia lacrimosa5 sites
- Parabufina convexa5 sites
- Parabufina subovalis5 sites
- Quasillites5 sites
- Adelphobolbina4 sites
- Birdsallella devonica4 sites
- Bythocypris4 sites
- Kirkbyella4 sites
- Menoeidina4 sites
- Punctoprimitia4 sites
- Richina4 sites
- Amphizona3 sites
- Birdsallella3 sites
- Bollia3 sites
- Coelonella scapha3 sites
- Cryptophyllus arsinius3 sites
- Ctenoloculina cicatricosa3 sites
- Hanaites platus3 sites
- Hollinella3 sites
- Jenningsina catenulata3 sites
- Octonaria3 sites
- Ponderodictya punctulifera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Punctomosea, 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 5 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 Punctomosea 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 Punctomosea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Punctomosea 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 itBufinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.