Phosphannulus

No picture of Phosphannulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phosphannulus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithelminthidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 140 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesOrdovician — about 18 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 26 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous500–495 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences495–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–478 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences478–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences486.85 Mya346.7 Mya500 Mya337 Mya

26 occurrences of Phosphannulus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

26 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

12 formations

Advance — 56.03°N, 123.35°WJonstorp — 58.36°N, 25.57°EHwajeol — 37.07°N, 129.15°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 118.00°EEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WPonon Trehue — 35.19°S, 68.35°WNotch Peak — 39.22°N, 113.40°WUgorskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°EMayatas — 52.45°N, 71.54°EAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.81°WMossen — 58.38°N, 13.82°EWoodruff — 40.69°N, 116.13°W

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

Phosphannulus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Phosphannulus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Phosphannulus, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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 content0

No picture of Phosphannulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phosphannulus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHyolithelminthida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.