Chaunactis

No picture of Chaunactis 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 Chaunactis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HaplistiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermian314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 4 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences306 Mya259.857 Mya314 Mya253 Mya

14 occurrences of Chaunactis 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

14 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

5 formations

Kapp Starostin — 77.03°N, 16.20°ELas Delicias — 26.40°N, 102.94°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.26°WLa Difunta — 26.38°N, 102.94°WNaco — 34.36°N, 111.42°W

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

Chaunactis and its relatives

Permian

Where Chaunactis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Chaunactis, 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

4 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Chaunactis 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 Chaunactis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chaunactis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHaplistiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

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