Silenites

Silenites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiocyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 130 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 168 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 168 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 132 of 168 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 22 of 168 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence353–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–291 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–282 Mya — about 6 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 12 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 7 occurrences272–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 5 occurrences263–258 Mya — about 11 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 44 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 58 occurrences382.31 Mya251.902 Mya391 Mya248 Mya

168 occurrences of Silenites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

168 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

26 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EChangxing — 31.79°N, 104.58°EChangxing — 31.59°N, 104.32°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EQixia — 30.64°N, 110.75°EMaokou — 32.62°N, 105.86°EKokarkuyu — 36.69°N, 30.46°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EWujiaping — 32.31°N, 105.46°ETak Fa — 15.90°N, 100.89°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°ETak Fa — 15.19°N, 101.52°EElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WNesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°E"Bituminous Limestone" — 44.44°N, 19.53°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EXilanta — 30.72°N, 80.70°EKhao Khad — 14.79°N, 100.88°ENam Maholan — 17.11°N, 101.88°ENew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WFort Riley — 38.21°N, 96.92°WChase — 38.27°N, 96.73°WStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WBurlingame — 38.81°N, 95.83°WAmericus — 38.63°N, 96.17°WDeer Creek — 38.97°N, 95.06°WFeixianguan — 31.79°N, 104.58°ERyozensan Limestone — 35.26°N, 136.36°E

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The named rock units Silenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Silenites and its relatives

Permian

Where Silenites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

626 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Silenites, 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

22 references

Each of the 168 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. 10 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 Silenites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itBairdiocyprididae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.