Phaenopora ensiformis

Phaenopora ensiformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhaenoporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 430.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 36 of 37 occurrencesSilurian446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya432.9 Mya445.7 Mya430.1 Mya

37 occurrences of Phaenopora ensiformis 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

37 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

8 formations

Sodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.22°N, 77.34°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.29°N, 76.74°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WFurnaceville — 43.17°N, 77.63°WFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.16°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.06°WFurnaceville — 43.25°N, 77.02°WFurnaceville — 43.29°N, 76.74°WFurnaceville — 43.31°N, 76.58°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WWolcott — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWolcott — 43.14°N, 75.58°WOneida — 43.15°N, 75.57°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOjlemyr cherts — 57.82°N, 18.90°E

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The named rock units Phaenopora ensiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phaenopora ensiformis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Phaenopora ensiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Phaenopora ensiformis, 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

2 references

Each of the 37 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 content1

Picture of Phaenopora ensiformis

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No 3D scan of Phaenopora ensiformis 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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What may have been alongside itPhaenopora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852