Heterophrentis

Heterophrentis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmplexidaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 124 of 124 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 10 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 11 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 11 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 11 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 11 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 10 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 11 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 11 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 11 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 4 occurrences399.5 Mya385.9 Mya411.2 Mya381.7 Mya

124 occurrences of Heterophrentis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

124 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

17 formations

Onondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.70°N, 74.92°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 76.00°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.07°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 74.94°WSkaneateles — 42.96°N, 75.88°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WCandas — 43.49°N, 2.39°EJaycox — 42.88°N, 78.02°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WMcColley Canyon — 38.87°N, 117.92°WYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°EShanglun Dolomite — 23.60°N, 109.65°EKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WDewal — 33.78°N, 68.00°E

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The named rock units Heterophrentis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterophrentis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Heterophrentis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Heterophrentis, 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

20 references

Each of the 124 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. 8 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 Heterophrentis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heterophrentis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1875