Neozaphrentis

Neozaphrentis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HapsiphyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 53 occurrencesSilurian — about 33 of 53 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 53 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 53 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 53 occurrences449–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–436 Mya — about 8 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 17 occurrences429–423 Mya — about 8 occurrences423–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–362 Mya — about 3 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 5 occurrences355–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–335 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–322 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence443.1 Mya254.14 Mya449 Mya248 Mya

53 occurrences of Neozaphrentis 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

53 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

20 formations

Cedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.37°N, 90.90°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.30°N, 90.86°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.59°N, 91.40°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.68°N, 97.53°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.13°N, 97.32°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WInwood — 53.17°N, 99.28°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.22°N, 99.48°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.94°N, 100.15°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.17°N, 99.28°WStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WNew Providence — 38.09°N, 85.72°WNew Providence — 38.16°N, 85.78°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WMonte Cristo Limestone — 38.43°N, 113.56°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WPella — 41.33°N, 92.38°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WLittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WLouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WEast Arm Dolomite — 58.77°N, 94.17°WBesa River — 61.10°N, 123.98°WKhachik — 38.98°N, 45.53°E

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The named rock units Neozaphrentis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neozaphrentis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Neozaphrentis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Neozaphrentis, 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

16 references

Each of the 53 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. 4 further references are 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 Neozaphrentis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neozaphrentis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grove 1935