Kransia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BetterbergiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
18 occurrences of Kransia 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
18 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
10 formations
- Jemelle Formation6
- Cawak Formation · Nawar Group3
- Norbonak Formation · Khodzha-Kurgan Group2
- Acanthopyge Limestone Formation1
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Selscheid Formation1
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The named rock units Kransia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kransia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Kransia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
199 taxa- Bryozoa6 sites
- Rugosa5 sites
- Schizophoria5 sites
- Athyris4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Invertrypa kelusiana4 sites
- Spinocyrtia4 sites
- Alveolites3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Aulacella3 sites
- Calceola sandalina3 sites
- Carinatina3 sites
- Chonetidina3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Desquamatia (Synatrypa) subzonata3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Gypidula abunda3 sites
- Kayseria3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Productella3 sites
- Staphylopora3 sites
- Thamnopora3 sites
- Xystostrophia3 sites
- Arduspirifer2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Kransia, 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
8 references- Les brachiopodes (Pentamerida, Atrypida et Spiriferida) de la fin de l’Eifelien et du début du Givetien à Pondrôme (Belgique, bord sud du Synclinorium de Dinant)6
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores4
- Early Devonian brachiopods from the Zeravshan Mountain Range, southern Tyan-Shan, central Asia3
- The rhynchonellid brachiopod Sibirirhynchia alata (Khodalevich, 1951) in the Emsian (Lower Devonian) deposits of northeast Eurasia and south-central Alaska1
- Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the northern shelf of Gondwana (Mader Basin, Morocco): Diversity, colonization patterns and relation to coeval palaeocommunities1
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]1
- Zur Fossilführung des Ohler Schiefers (Devon: Eifelium) im West-Sauerland (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Fossils of the Ohler Schiefer (Devonian, Eifelian) in the western Sauerland (Eastern Rhenish Massif)]1
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)1
Each of the 18 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. 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 Kransia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kransia 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBetterbergiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.