Encrinurus

Encrinurus is a long-lived genus of phacopid trilobites that lived in what are now Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America from the middle Ordovician to the early Devonian from 472 to 412.3 mya, existing for approximately 59.7 million years.

Encrinurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EncrinurinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 47 of 344 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 295 of 344 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 344 occurrencesDevonian478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–465 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 10 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 9 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 18 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 54 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 30 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 30 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 32 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 29 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 22 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 33 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 33 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 9 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 4 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468 Mya419.62 Mya478 Mya412 Mya

344 occurrences of Encrinurus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

344 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

129 formations

Jupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.12°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.51°WJupiter — 49.56°N, 63.35°WJupiter — 49.35°N, 63.25°WJupiter — 49.25°N, 62.29°WJupiter — 49.24°N, 62.29°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.24°WJupiter — 49.24°N, 62.39°WJupiter — 49.14°N, 62.36°WJupiter — 49.14°N, 62.34°WJupiter — 49.23°N, 62.55°WJupiter — 49.23°N, 62.60°WJupiter — 49.48°N, 63.16°WJupiter — 49.44°N, 63.14°WRead Bay — 73.25°N, 93.50°WRead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.71°N, 94.89°WRead Bay — 75.25°N, 95.00°WWether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.37°WWhite Head — 48.50°N, 64.25°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WGun River — 49.57°N, 63.38°WGun River — 49.32°N, 62.42°WGun River — 49.53°N, 63.54°WGun River — 49.55°N, 63.54°WGun River — 49.25°N, 62.38°WGun River — 49.27°N, 62.09°WGun River — 49.19°N, 61.72°WGun River — 49.61°N, 63.79°WCape Schuchert — 77.51°N, 66.65°WRacine Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 43.00°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 38.97°N, 90.43°WDelorme — 62.77°N, 125.25°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.00°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WWhittaker — 62.77°N, 125.25°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.13°EBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EDamery Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WDamery Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMelbourne — 34.08°S, 151.02°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WDouro — 73.93°N, 92.10°WDouro — 72.98°N, 91.66°WDouro — 72.82°N, 92.02°WDouro — 72.59°N, 93.77°WFukata — 33.53°N, 133.22°EHanson Creek — 39.38°N, 116.14°WHanson Creek — 39.00°N, 116.00°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLeintwardine — 52.00°N, 3.00°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WReynales — 43.17°N, 79.03°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°W

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The named rock units Encrinurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Encrinurus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Encrinurus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,268 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 313 sites for Encrinurus, 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

116 references

Each of the 344 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. 104 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 Encrinurus

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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Encrinurus 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emmrich 1844