Cancrinella boonensis

Wagner, Steve · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- CancrinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 46 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.9 Mya.
26 occurrences of Cancrinella boonensis 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
26 occurrences- Carboniferous73%
- Permian27%
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
15 formations
- Graham Formation5
- Falls City Limestone Formation · Admire Group3
- Wood Siding Formation · Wabaunsee Group3
- Red Eagle Limestone Formation · Council Grove Group2
- Cherokee Shale Formation1
- Thrifty Formation1
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The named rock units Cancrinella boonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cancrinella boonensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cancrinella boonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
379 taxa- Composita subtilita16 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa9 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer9 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis9 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis8 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis8 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari8 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis8 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa7 sites
- Derbyia7 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Linoproductus5 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus5 sites
- Astartella concentrica4 sites
- Aviculopecten4 sites
- Aviculopecten arctisulcatus4 sites
- Echinaria4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Marginifera4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
- Paleyoldia glabra4 sites
- Phestia4 sites
- Beecheria bovidens3 sites
- Buxtonia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cancrinella boonensis, 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
10 references- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas8
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas7
- Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico3
- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico2
- Marine invertebrate assemblages from the Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Holder Formation, Dry Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, south-central New Mexico1
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University1
- Paleoecological notes on the fauna of the Shumway Limestone (Mattoon Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
- Late Pennsylvanian brachiopods from North-Central New Mexico1
- Late Mississippian fauna from the Redoak Hollow Formation of southern Oklahoma. Part II. Brachiopoda1
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas1
Each of the 26 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 Cancrinella boonensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wagner, Steve
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cancrinella boonensis 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 itCancrinella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swallow 1858)