Pycnostylus

Pycnostylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnostylidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 17 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 18 occurrencesDevonian439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–425 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432.9 Mya413.02 Mya439.2 Mya410.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Pycnostylus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

18 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

8 formations

Cedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 50.70°N, 98.03°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.75°N, 98.58°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.00°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.30°N, 100.27°WGower — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGower — 42.05°N, 91.00°WSilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ESilverdale — 35.00°S, 149.00°EQuinton — 20.00°S, 145.00°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WTakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EAttawapiskat — 52.85°N, 83.90°WDago — 39.38°N, 68.09°E

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The named rock units Pycnostylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnostylus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pycnostylus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pycnostylus, 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

9 references

Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Pycnostylus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pycnostylus 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 itPycnostylidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whiteaves 1884