Phaulactis

Phaulactis is an extinct genus of rugose coral that existed during the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian periods. It can be found in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Phaulactis was described by Ryder in 1926.

Phaulactis

Oskar josefsson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
LykophyllidaePBDB
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 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 69 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 62 of 69 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 69 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 8 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 6 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 10 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences443.1 Mya413.02 Mya450.4 Mya409.8 Mya

69 occurrences of Phaulactis 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

69 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

39 formations

Karheen — 55.80°N, 133.35°WKarheen — 55.83°N, 133.58°WKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ESilverdale — 35.00°S, 149.00°EUpper Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°EGrinchuk Subsuite — 48.50°N, 26.62°EGrinchuk Subsuite — 48.47°N, 26.55°EYarralumla — 35.28°S, 149.13°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°EMont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°WTsagaan-Bulag — 44.33°N, 99.50°ETsagaan-Bulag — 44.38°N, 99.45°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°EAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.22°N, 64.88°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ELower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EChasm Creek — 58.25°N, 94.57°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WLower Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EFranopol' — 52.00°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Phaulactis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phaulactis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Phaulactis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Phaulactis, 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 69 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 Phaulactis

Credit
Oskar josefsson
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Ryder 1926