Saffordotaxis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhomboporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 50 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 23 of 50 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 16 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 50 occurrencesPermian442–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–380 Mya — about 5 occurrences380–374 Mya — about 14 occurrences374–368 Mya — about 5 occurrences355–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–343 Mya — about 7 occurrences343–337 Mya — about 5 occurrences337–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences432.9 Mya264.28 Mya442 Mya256 Mya

50 occurrences of Saffordotaxis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

50 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

17 formations

Waterways — 58.00°N, 112.72°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WChandalaz — 43.20°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 43.12°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 44.75°N, 131.20°ENew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WGrainger — 36.42°N, 84.31°WChainman — 39.26°N, 113.78°WPicos de Europa — 43.26°N, 4.62°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°EBarabash — 43.18°N, 131.55°EPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.72°EBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°ELiutiagou — 46.85°N, 122.15°EAiduna — 4.15°S, 135.20°ESouth Curra — 26.10°S, 152.57°EKhoshyeilagh — 36.09°N, 55.35°ERoque Redonde — 43.56°N, 3.30°E

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The named rock units Saffordotaxis 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.

Saffordotaxis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Saffordotaxis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Saffordotaxis, 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

16 references

Each of the 50 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. 4 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 Saffordotaxis 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 Saffordotaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saffordotaxis 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 itRhomboporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1952