Phragmolites

Phragmolites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BucaniinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 138 occurrencesOrdovician — about 136 of 138 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 138 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 17 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 26 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 22 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 24 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 24 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 8 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 7 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.1 Mya438.6 Mya488 Mya432 Mya

138 occurrences of Phragmolites 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

138 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

61 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WHermitage — 35.80°N, 86.12°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 36.17°N, 86.78°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WLebanon Limestone — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.12°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.48°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WChaumont — 45.42°N, 75.74°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WVauréal — 49.92°N, 64.33°WVauréal — 49.93°N, 64.13°WDecorah — 43.84°N, 92.19°WDecorah — 44.95°N, 93.07°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.09°N, 84.50°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Phragmolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phragmolites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Phragmolites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Phragmolites, 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

40 references

Each of the 138 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. 28 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 Phragmolites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Phragmolites 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 itBucaniinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1838