Dracius carnifex
No picture of Dracius carnifex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dracius carnifex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DraciusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dracius carnifex on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Dracius carnifex and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dracius carnifex and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Leptothyrellopsis polonicus2 sites
- Terebratulina chrysalis2 sites
- Terebratulina faujasii2 sites
- Terebratulina gracilis2 sites
- Aemula inusitata1 site
- Argyrotheca bronnii1 site
- Argyrotheca coniuncta1 site
- Carneithyris subcardinalis1 site
- Cretirhynchia1 site
- Dalligas nobilis1 site
- Gisilina gisii1 site
- Gisilina jasmundi1 site
- Isocrania costata1 site
- Kingena1 site
- Kingena pentangulata1 site
- Rhynchonellidae1 site
- Rugia acutirostris1 site
- Rugia tenuicostata1 site
- Terebratulina longicollis1 site
- Terebratulina subtilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dracius carnifex, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Dracius carnifex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dracius carnifex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dracius carnifex 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 itDracius through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steinich 1967