Entelophyllum

Entelophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntelophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 87 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 82 of 87 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 87 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 7 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 6 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 4 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 6 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 4 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443.1 Mya413.02 Mya450.3 Mya409.8 Mya

87 occurrences of Entelophyllum 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

87 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

Khandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°ELouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 61.67°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.33°WWest Khatanzeya — 71.00°N, 58.00°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ESilverdale — 35.00°S, 149.00°EZhouqu — 34.00°N, 103.00°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EChicotte — 49.50°N, 63.00°WChicotte — 49.20°N, 63.00°WIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°EAkchalym — 51.25°N, 93.83°EOhesaare — 58.00°N, 22.02°EMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°ELilla Karlso Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUst'irgisla Beds — 53.10°N, 57.43°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WNingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ERusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WCanberra — 35.28°S, 149.13°E

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The named rock units Entelophyllum 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. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entelophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Entelophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

949 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Entelophyllum, 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

43 references

Each of the 87 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. 31 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 Entelophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1927