Carphites plectus

No picture of Carphites plectus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Carphites plectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarphitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283.8 Mya266.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Carphites plectus 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

4 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

3 formations

Road Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°W

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

Carphites plectus and its relatives

Permian

Where Carphites plectus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

284 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Carphites plectus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Carphites plectus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Carphites plectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Carphites plectus 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 itCarphites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finks 1960