Crania

Crania is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived during the Upper Cretaceous.

Crania

A. H. Cooke / Arthur Shipley / Frederick R. C. Reed · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CraniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Craniida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Craniida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Craniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Craniata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Craniata

Time the record covers

At least 450 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 107 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 107 occurrencesDevonian — about 16 of 107 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 28 of 107 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 107 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 107 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 107 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 107 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 107 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 107 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 107 occurrencesPaleocene — about 14 of 107 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 107 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 107 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 107 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 107 occurrences481–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–401 Mya — about 3 occurrences401–385 Mya — about 7 occurrences385–369 Mya — about 4 occurrences369–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–337 Mya — about 5 occurrences337–320 Mya — about 15 occurrences320–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–256 Mya — about 5 occurrences256–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–224 Mya — about 5 occurrences208–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–144 Mya — about 8 occurrences144–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–64 Mya — about 14 occurrences64–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences451 Mya11.7 ka481 Mya0 Mya

107 occurrences of Crania on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

107 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

47 formations

Moscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 75.18°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.60°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WWinchell — 33.03°N, 98.07°WOlivetska Hora — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EWegener Halvo — 74.03°N, 21.70°WIola — 36.14°N, 96.24°WHeath — 47.33°N, 109.07°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WOuray — 37.25°N, 108.75°WSalem Limestone — 37.79°N, 85.82°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMcCraney Limestone — 39.76°N, 91.26°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.87°N, 86.62°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.26°WHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WRoad River — 64.77°N, 135.19°W

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The named rock units Crania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crania and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Crania and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Crania, 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

55 references

Each of the 107 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. 43 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 Crania

Credit
A. H. Cooke / Arthur Shipley / Frederick R. C. Reed
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCraniidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Retzius 1781