Planocoenites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoenitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesDevonian432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426.7 Mya387.95 Mya432 Mya381 Mya

6 occurrences of Planocoenites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

6 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

4 formations

Fukuji — 36.22°N, 137.52°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°EKowala — 50.93°N, 20.53°E

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

Planocoenites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Planocoenites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Planocoenites, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Planocoenites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Planocoenites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Planocoenites 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCoenitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1952