Cranaena

Cranaena

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CranaeninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 251 occurrencesDevonian — about 207 of 251 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 43 of 251 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 251 occurrencesPermian423–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–407 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences407–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 17 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 91 occurrences382–377 Mya — about 39 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 44 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 3 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 3 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 8 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 17 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 8 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–332 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–322 Mya — about 4 occurrences317–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–307 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya307 Mya423 Mya271 Mya

251 occurrences of Cranaena 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

251 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

66 formations

Lime Creek — 43.00°N, 93.00°WLime Creek — 42.47°N, 91.89°WLime Creek — 43.52°N, 92.95°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 92.93°WLime Creek — 43.10°N, 92.93°WLime Creek — 43.15°N, 93.12°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 93.27°WLime Creek — 42.97°N, 93.20°WCoralville — 42.50°N, 92.00°WCoralville — 42.07°N, 91.60°WCoralville — 41.67°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 41.63°N, 90.63°WCoralville — 42.30°N, 92.18°WCoralville — 42.87°N, 91.90°WCoralville — 41.46°N, 90.73°WCoralville — 42.77°N, 92.32°WCoralville — 41.63°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLittle Cedar — 42.63°N, 92.67°WLittle Cedar — 41.72°N, 91.45°WLittle Cedar — 41.46°N, 90.73°WLittle Cedar — 42.32°N, 92.17°WLittle Cedar — 42.13°N, 92.33°WLittle Cedar — 42.83°N, 91.87°WLittle Cedar — 41.47°N, 91.13°WLittle Cedar — 42.53°N, 92.33°WLittle Cedar — 41.67°N, 91.53°WLittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WShell Rock — 43.14°N, 93.00°WShell Rock — 43.83°N, 92.93°WShell Rock — 41.95°N, 91.89°WShell Rock — 42.77°N, 92.32°WShell Rock — 43.15°N, 93.00°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.58°WMoscow — 42.65°N, 75.16°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.93°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WLithograph City — 43.00°N, 93.00°WLithograph City — 41.67°N, 91.53°WLithograph City — 41.63°N, 90.63°WLithograph City — 41.73°N, 91.65°WLithograph City — 41.82°N, 91.51°WLithograph City — 41.95°N, 91.89°WLithograph City — 42.37°N, 92.41°WChappel Limestone — 31.06°N, 99.30°WChappel Limestone — 30.68°N, 99.33°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WBanff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 51.80°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.17°WGlubokaya — 55.52°N, 85.70°EGlubokaya — 55.30°N, 85.48°EGlubokaya — 55.17°N, 84.57°ECedar Valley Limestone — 38.71°N, 91.89°WHeath — 46.54°N, 110.43°WHeath — 47.13°N, 109.56°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBeaulieu — 46.00°N, 2.00°ETully — 42.83°N, 75.78°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.00°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.26°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WLogansport Limestone — 40.72°N, 86.22°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WSt. Joe — 36.03°N, 92.81°WSt. Joe — 36.31°N, 95.03°WBlue Fiord — 76.30°N, 99.00°WFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EFerques — 46.00°N, 2.00°ESnyder Creek Shale — 38.72°N, 92.46°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.75°N, 91.88°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.81°N, 91.98°WPotter Farm — 45.22°N, 83.66°WThunder Bay — 45.22°N, 83.66°WMilwaukee — 43.02°N, 87.90°WMilwaukee — 43.10°N, 87.90°W

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The named rock units Cranaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cranaena and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cranaena and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 176 sites for Cranaena, 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

59 references

Each of the 251 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. 47 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 content1

Picture of Cranaena

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cranaena 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 itCranaeninae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1893