Ensipteria

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BakevelliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 25 of 25 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264.28 Mya254.14 Mya267.4 Mya251.4 Mya

25 occurrences of Ensipteria 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

25 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

7 formations

Douling — 27.69°N, 113.22°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 27.75°N, 111.77°EDouling — 23.23°N, 113.29°EHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EDalong — 27.77°N, 111.96°EDalong — 25.58°N, 112.43°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EChangxing — 26.33°N, 105.93°ETenjinnoki — 38.70°N, 141.33°ELongtan — 25.58°N, 112.43°ELongtan — 24.78°N, 113.68°EYanshi — 26.03°N, 117.21°E

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The named rock units Ensipteria 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.

Ensipteria and its relatives

Permian

Where Ensipteria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ensipteria, 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

9 references

Each of the 25 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 Ensipteria 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 Ensipteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ensipteria 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 itBakevelliidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nakazawa and Newell 1968