Encrinurus punctatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EncrinurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Encrinurus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
34 occurrences of Encrinurus punctatus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
34 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
17 formations
- Hemse Beds Formation3
- Jaani Formation3
- Slite Beds Formation2
- Klinteberg Beds Formation2
- Demshin Subsuite Formation2
- Damery Beds Formation2
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The named rock units Encrinurus punctatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Encrinurus punctatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Encrinurus punctatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
416 taxa- Atrypa reticularis15 sites
- Calymene14 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus14 sites
- Heliolites14 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis14 sites
- Anthozoa13 sites
- Crinoidea13 sites
- Bryozoa12 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata12 sites
- Acervularia11 sites
- Favosites11 sites
- Stromatoporoidea11 sites
- Bumastus10 sites
- Poleumita discors10 sites
- Trilobita10 sites
- Algae9 sites
- Gypidula galeata9 sites
- Platyostoma cornutum9 sites
- Proetus9 sites
- Ptilodictya lanceolata9 sites
- Brachiopoda8 sites
- Calymene blumenbachii8 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus8 sites
- Fenestella8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Encrinurus punctatus, 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
13 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland13
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia6
- The Llandovery trilobites of England and Wales. Part 13
- Soft-sediment adaptations in a Silurian gastropod from Central Asia2
- Die Fauna der silurischen Ablagerungen des Gourvernements Podolien)2
- Earliest encrusting calcareous Foraminifera from the Sheinwoodian (lower Silurian) of Saaremaa Island, Estonia1
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway1
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian1
- Locality 5:2 Pulli Cliff1
- Locality 5:3 Paramaja Cliff1
- Locality 5:1 Koguva Quarry1
- Grounding of the Stratigraphy of Silurian shallow - water marine and lagoonal rocks in East Lithuania1
Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Encrinurus punctatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEncrinurus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlenberg 1821)