Ananias

Ananias

Marcou · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlabrocingulidesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 61 of 168 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 102 of 168 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 168 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 5 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 4 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 5 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 15 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 23 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–282 Mya — about 8 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 15 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 15 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 14 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 14 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 9 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 8 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 9 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences335.4 Mya244.4 Mya345 Mya239 Mya

168 occurrences of Ananias on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

168 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

49 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 31.53°N, 99.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WPhosphoria — 42.32°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 42.26°N, 111.01°WPhosphoria — 42.45°N, 111.25°WPhosphoria — 42.09°N, 110.93°WPhosphoria — 41.45°N, 111.39°WPhosphoria — 43.10°N, 112.15°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.26°N, 103.37°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.45°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.93°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°ESkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.35°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WQingyan — 26.34°N, 106.68°ECabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°ECutoff — 31.99°N, 104.92°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WGuojiashan — 33.90°N, 104.50°EAG4 — 46.19°S, 169.35°EAG4 — 46.09°S, 169.18°EMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.65°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.69°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°W

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The named rock units Ananias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ananias and its relatives

Permian

Where Ananias and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,996 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Ananias, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

36 references

Each of the 168 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. 24 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

Media content2

Picture of Ananias

Source
GBIF
Credit
Marcou
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Fovea
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlabrocingulides through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knight 1945)