Pycnotrochus viator
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnotrochusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Anomphalidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Anomphalidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anomphalidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pycnotrochus viator 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Pycnotrochus viator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pycnotrochus viator and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pycnotrochus viator and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Morphotropis bohemica3 sites
- Pleurorima migrans3 sites
- Prosolarium incumbens3 sites
- Barrandecirrus filiformis2 sites
- Catazone latona2 sites
- Coelocaulus cybele2 sites
- Coelocaulus fugitiva2 sites
- Coelocyclus novaki2 sites
- Euomphalopterus aliger2 sites
- Oriostoma dives2 sites
- Oriostoma ornatula2 sites
- Pachystrophia subuloidea2 sites
- Prosolarium procerum2 sites
- Ptychosphaera constricta2 sites
- Pycnomphalus concurrens2 sites
- Stylonema commutatum2 sites
- Stylonema domina2 sites
- Stylonema potens2 sites
- Stylonema styloideum2 sites
- Archaeopraga pinnaeformis1 site
- Auriptygma fortior1 site
- Beraunia bohemica1 site
- Beraunia elliptica1 site
- Beraunia querenda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pycnotrochus viator, 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 referencesEach 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 Pycnotrochus viator 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 Pycnotrochus viator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnotrochus viator 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 itPycnotrochus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1903)