Pycnolithus

No picture of Pycnolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pycnolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnolithidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 6 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.2 Mya440.5 Mya458.7 Mya438.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Pycnolithus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

3 formations

Ida Bay — 43.00°S, 147.00°EPrecipitous Bluff — 43.00°S, 147.00°EJupiter — 49.13°N, 61.67°W

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The named rock units Pycnolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnolithus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pycnolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pycnolithus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 6 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. 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

Media content0

No picture of Pycnolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pycnolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pycnolithus 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 itPycnolithidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1899