Thamniscus

Thamniscus

The Field Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
SeptoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 85 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 85 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 59 of 85 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 85 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 85 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences353–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 27 occurrences340–334 Mya — about 10 occurrences334–327 Mya — about 11 occurrences327–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–270 Mya — about 4 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 3 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 6 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya442 Mya250 Mya

85 occurrences of Thamniscus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

85 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

32 formations

Edwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WZechstein — 54.32°N, 14.07°EZechstein — 51.40°N, 10.75°EZechstein — 50.72°N, 11.65°EZechstein — 50.69°N, 11.57°EKazan — 57.60°N, 49.13°EKazan — 64.67°N, 49.33°EKazan — 55.29°N, 51.20°EKazan — 54.10°N, 52.13°ELocust Point — 38.75°N, 86.00°WLocust Point — 38.29°N, 85.82°WBaird — 40.76°N, 122.32°WGlencar — 54.43°N, 7.85°WGlencar — 54.45°N, 7.83°WWargal — 32.21°N, 71.06°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WCracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WGreat Blue limestone — 40.53°N, 112.30°WOmi Limestone — 37.00°N, 138.00°EFort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°EButtle Lake — 49.70°N, 125.65°WMurdock Mountain — 41.23°N, 114.35°WDelaware Mountain — 31.60°N, 104.75°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.20°WKhan — 33.26°N, 56.17°EHalleck — 56.92°N, 134.22°W

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The named rock units Thamniscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamniscus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Thamniscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Thamniscus, 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

37 references

Each of the 85 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. 25 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 Thamniscus

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1849