Ensiferites langeri
No picture of Ensiferites langeri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Ensiferites langeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnsiferitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Heteractinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Heteractinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Heteractinida
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ensiferites langeri on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ensiferites langeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ensiferites langeri and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ensiferites langeri and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- ? Resteignella sp.1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Alveolites pseudorbicularis1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Angochitina1 site
- Atrypidae1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Belodella resima1 site
- Binoleniceras stichlingi1 site
- Bipennatus bipennatus1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Calcitarcha indet.1 site
- Caliapora1 site
- Clathrocoilona1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona)1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Clathrocoilona obliterata1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cryptostomata1 site
- Cupressocrinitidae1 site
- Dendrostella1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Dohmophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ensiferites langeri, 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
2 references- The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)1
- A new heteractinellid calcareous sponge from the lowermost Ordovician of Nevada and a discussion of the suborder Heteractinellidae1
Each of the 2 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 Ensiferites langeri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ensiferites langeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ensiferites langeri 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 itEnsiferites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur et al. 2008