Cranaena

Searched as Cranaena subelliptica hardingensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cranaena as the accepted name.

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 most 36 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Cranaena on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Leadville Limestone — 38.02°N, 107.67°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.

Cranaena and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cranaena and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Cranaena

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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