Craniiformea

Craniiformea

Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [1] . · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
BrachiopodaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 509 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 1494 occurrencesOrdovician — about 549 of 1494 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 294 of 1494 occurrencesDevonian — about 200 of 1494 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 75 of 1494 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 160 of 1494 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1494 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 1494 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 1494 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1494 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 1494 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 1494 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 1494 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 89 of 1494 occurrencesPaleocene — about 35 of 1494 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 1494 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 1494 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 1494 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 1494 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 1494 occurrences526–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–473 Mya — about 4 occurrences473–456 Mya — about 132 occurrences456–438 Mya — about 490 occurrences438–420 Mya — about 214 occurrences420–403 Mya — about 20 occurrences403–385 Mya — about 72 occurrences385–368 Mya — about 72 occurrences368–350 Mya — about 49 occurrences350–333 Mya — about 19 occurrences333–315 Mya — about 16 occurrences315–298 Mya — about 34 occurrences298–280 Mya — about 34 occurrences280–263 Mya — about 110 occurrences263–245 Mya — about 12 occurrences245–228 Mya — about 7 occurrences228–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–140 Mya — about 7 occurrences140–123 Mya — about 9 occurrences123–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–88 Mya — about 7 occurrences88–70 Mya — about 46 occurrences70–53 Mya — about 75 occurrences53–35 Mya — about 12 occurrences35–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences509.7 Mya11.7 ka526 Mya0 Mya

1,494 occurrences of Craniiformea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1,494 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

408 formations

Martinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 36.90°N, 81.53°WMartinsburg — 37.35°N, 80.81°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WMartinsburg — 38.52°N, 78.90°WVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°EBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.78°WBell Canyon — 31.80°N, 104.78°WBell Canyon — 32.01°N, 104.72°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.82°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 75.18°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.75°WMoscow — 42.61°N, 74.88°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.98°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWaynesville — 39.36°N, 84.36°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSappington — 46.21°N, 111.04°WSappington — 46.13°N, 111.36°WSappington — 45.96°N, 111.42°WSappington — 45.93°N, 111.32°WSappington — 45.96°N, 111.54°WSappington — 45.88°N, 111.67°WSappington — 45.91°N, 111.96°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.73°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WSappington — 45.91°N, 110.96°WSappington — 45.17°N, 111.79°WSappington — 41.65°N, 111.71°WSappington — 45.20°N, 111.96°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WCiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.94°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.25°N, 103.37°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.16°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.53°WDunleith — 42.02°N, 93.45°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WHirmuse — 59.00°N, 26.00°EHirmuse — 59.26°N, 27.00°EHirmuse — 59.31°N, 27.08°EHirmuse — 59.35°N, 26.39°ESkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 75.93°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.22°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.99°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 75.56°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.58°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.02°N, 77.15°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.15°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WBeattie — 39.24°N, 96.60°WBeattie — 39.10°N, 96.64°WBeattie — 39.44°N, 96.13°WBeattie — 39.38°N, 96.39°WBeattie — 39.42°N, 95.97°WBeattie — 37.53°N, 96.49°WBeattie — 37.37°N, 96.54°W

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The named rock units Craniiformea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 384 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 242 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Craniiformea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Craniiformea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,169 sites for Craniiformea, and this reads 240 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

357 references

Each of the 1,494 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. 345 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 Craniiformea

Credit
Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [1] .
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Craniiformea 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 itBrachiopoda through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov et al. 1993