Novocrania

Novocrania is a genus of brachiopods found off shore.

Novocrania

British Museum · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Craniida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Craniida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Craniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Craniata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Craniata

Time the record covers

At least 450 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Ordovician — about 13 of 47 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 47 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 47 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 47 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 47 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 47 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 47 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences451 Mya129 ka466 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Novocrania on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

47 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

21 formations

Pinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EPinczow — 50.41°N, 20.86°EPinczow — 50.45°N, 20.80°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.83°S, 176.53°WWaititi — 35.44°S, 173.30°EWaititi — 35.55°S, 173.49°EWaititi — 35.56°S, 173.49°EWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.07°WCalcareniti del Salento — 40.00°N, 18.42°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WProsser Limestone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWhitcliffe — 52.07°N, 2.65°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WRhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°EBuda Marl — 47.55°N, 18.88°EDnieper Beds — 48.45°N, 35.15°ELower Red — 31.51°N, 52.73°E

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The named rock units Novocrania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Novocrania and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Novocrania and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

972 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Novocrania, 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

26 references

Each of the 47 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. 14 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 Novocrania

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Novocrania 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lee and Brunton 1986