Pustula

Pustula is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived during the Carboniferous period. It is the type genus of the subfamily Pustulinae. Its fossils have been found in Eurasia, North America and northern Africa.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PustulinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 147 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 43 of 192 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 192 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 4 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 10 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 14 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 14 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 14 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 14 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 16 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 16 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 11 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 11 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 5 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 6 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 5 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–271 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–253 Mya — about 15 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 9 occurrences346.7 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya249 Mya

192 occurrences of Pustula 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

192 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

44 formations

Saginaw Bay — 56.86°N, 134.15°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.28°S, 151.63°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.21°S, 151.57°EBanff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 53.03°N, 118.08°WBanff — 52.98°N, 117.33°WBanff — 51.04°N, 115.22°WPottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.08°N, 1.87°WCarboniferous Limestone — 52.83°N, 2.00°WHalleck — 56.92°N, 134.22°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.00°N, 81.81°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.13°WSt. Joe — 36.31°N, 95.03°WCauldon Low Conglomerate — 53.03°N, 1.88°WKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EBurlington — 39.43°N, 91.04°WUrushten — 44.10°N, 40.08°EDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WDouglas — 39.04°N, 95.39°WCastle Reef Dolomite — 47.42°N, 105.59°WBlackwater Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WMarar — 27.50°N, 14.50°E

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The named rock units Pustula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pustula and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pustula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Pustula, 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

37 references

Each of the 192 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Pustula 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.

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