Janius occidentalis
No picture of Janius occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Janius occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JaniusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Janius occidentalis 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Janius occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Janius occidentalis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Janius occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Flabellitesia kessei7 sites
- Skenidioides operosa7 sites
- Cyrtia alatiformis6 sites
- Hedeina6 sites
- Morinorhynchus crispus6 sites
- Pentlandina harperi6 sites
- Ptychopleurella lenzi6 sites
- Rhynchotreta americaniformis6 sites
- Spirigerina copperi6 sites
- Spirinella struszi6 sites
- Dicoelosia5 sites
- Epitomyonia amplissima5 sites
- Jonesea grayi5 sites
- Liljevallia amorpha5 sites
- Merista5 sites
- Morinorhynchus miniparvicostellus5 sites
- Nucleospira5 sites
- Plectatrypa unicosta5 sites
- Stegerhynchus estonicus5 sites
- Amsdenina4 sites
- Ancillotoechia4 sites
- Caryogyps chattertoni4 sites
- Chonetoidea4 sites
- Cliftonia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Janius occidentalis, 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
3 references- Wenlockian (Silurian) brachiopods of the Cape Phillips Formation, Baillie Hamilton Island, Arctic Canada: part I4
- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada2
- Silurian (Wenlockian) brachiopods from southeastern California1
Each of the 7 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 Janius occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Janius occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Janius occidentalis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itJanius through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot et al. 1988