Pygolfia
No picture of Pygolfia 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 Pygolfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CardiolidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pygolfia 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
9 occurrencesThese 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 Pygolfia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pygolfia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pygolfia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Cardiolinka5 sites
- Dualina5 sites
- Praecardium5 sites
- Cephalopoda4 sites
- Pterinopecten4 sites
- Spanila4 sites
- Lunulacardium3 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Broeckia primula2 sites
- Butovicella migrans2 sites
- Cardiola2 sites
- Ceratiocaris bohemica2 sites
- Dualina inexplicata2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Joachymia2 sites
- Leptodesma2 sites
- Mila2 sites
- Praeostrea bohemica2 sites
- Pterochaenia2 sites
- Snoopyia2 sites
- Akrosphaerorthoceras1 site
- Ancyrochitina1 site
- Arionoceras1 site
- Belodella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pygolfia, 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
4 references- Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies3
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia3
- Polish Ludlow-Lower Devonian communities2
- Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia1
Each of the 9 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 Pygolfia 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 Pygolfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pygolfia 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 itCardiolidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kříž 1974