Zaphrenthis

Zaphrenthis

porshunta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ZaphrentidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 183 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 135 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 35 of 135 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 36 of 135 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 135 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 135 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 135 occurrences477–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–449 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences449–439 Mya — about 12 occurrences439–430 Mya — about 18 occurrences430–421 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–402 Mya — about 8 occurrences402–392 Mya — about 8 occurrences392–383 Mya — about 10 occurrences383–374 Mya — about 4 occurrences374–364 Mya — about 2 occurrences364–355 Mya — about 6 occurrences355–346 Mya — about 9 occurrences346–336 Mya — about 16 occurrences336–327 Mya — about 5 occurrences327–318 Mya — about 3 occurrences318–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–261 Mya — about 7 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 3 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya259.857 Mya477 Mya196 Mya

135 occurrences of Zaphrenthis 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

135 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

67 formations

Reynales — 43.21°N, 78.51°WReynales — 43.17°N, 77.63°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WReynales — 43.26°N, 77.16°WReynales — 43.26°N, 77.06°WReynales — 43.25°N, 77.02°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°ERochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.23°N, 76.98°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WCauldon Low Conglomerate — 53.03°N, 1.88°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWolcott — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWolcott — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWolcott — 43.14°N, 75.58°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WChapin — 42.84°N, 93.23°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WLankey Limestone — 42.12°S, 171.87°EMojon de Hierro — 43.50°S, 70.75°WMojon de Hierro — 44.53°S, 70.02°WHunsrueck Slate — 49.87°N, 7.38°EHunsrueck Slate — 49.85°N, 7.32°EFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WFurnaceville — 43.30°N, 76.68°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WWandrawandian — 34.88°S, 150.46°EGasper — 34.88°N, 85.50°WLeemon — 37.25°N, 89.45°WLeemon — 37.24°N, 89.46°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.73°N, 94.94°WLockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WOuray — 37.25°N, 108.75°WLeduc — 53.55°N, 113.50°W

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The named rock units Zaphrenthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zaphrenthis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Zaphrenthis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,400 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Zaphrenthis, 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

58 references

Each of the 135 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. 46 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 content3

Picture of Zaphrenthis

Credit
porshunta
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
zaphrenthis sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-6947

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque and Clifford 1820