Zaphrenthis haysii

Zaphrenthis haysii Meek, 1865, a relative of Zaphrenthis haysii — not Zaphrenthis haysii itself

Not Zaphrenthis haysii. This is Zaphrenthis haysii Meek, 1865, a relative — both are Streptelasmatidae.

I. Hayes · 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
GrewingkiaPBDB
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 most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 30 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.7 Mya442.6 Mya

30 occurrences of Zaphrenthis haysii 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

30 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

Beaverfoot — 50.71°N, 115.38°WBeaverfoot — 50.03°N, 115.51°WBeaverfoot — 52.00°N, 116.75°WBeaverfoot — 50.45°N, 115.77°WBeaverfoot — 51.17°N, 116.73°WBeaverfoot — 50.38°N, 115.80°WBeaverfoot — 50.88°N, 116.22°WBeaverfoot — 50.00°N, 116.40°WBeaverfoot — 51.20°N, 116.82°WBeaverfoot — 50.18°N, 115.36°WBeaverfoot — 50.47°N, 115.25°WBeaverfoot — 50.59°N, 115.30°WBeaverfoot — 51.68°N, 116.22°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.94°WCaution Creek — 58.17°N, 94.08°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.08°W

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

Zaphrenthis haysii and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Zaphrenthis haysii and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Zaphrenthis haysii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 30 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. 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 Zaphrenthis haysii Meek, 1865

Source
GBIF
Credit
I. Hayes
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zaphrenthis haysii 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 itGrewingkia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1865)