Petrocrania famelica
No picture of Petrocrania famelica 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 Petrocrania famelica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetrocraniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Petrocrania
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Petrocrania
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Petrocrania
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Craniata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Craniata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 383.4 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Petrocrania famelica 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
7 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
4 formations
- Shell Rock Formation · Cedar Valley Group3
- Lime Creek Formation2
- Coralville Formation · Cedar Valley Group1
- Independence Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Petrocrania famelica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petrocrania famelica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Petrocrania famelica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Cyrtina7 sites
- Pseudoatrypa devoniana6 sites
- Athyris4 sites
- Platyrachella4 sites
- Spinatrypa4 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta)4 sites
- Allanella3 sites
- Cyrtospirifer3 sites
- Douvillina3 sites
- Douvillina arcuata3 sites
- Floweria3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Productella3 sites
- Schizophoria3 sites
- Schizophoria (Schizophoria) iowensis3 sites
- Spinatrypina3 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)3 sites
- Sulcatostrophia3 sites
- Tenticospirifer shellrockensis3 sites
- Atribonium nora2 sites
- Cranaena2 sites
- Cranaenella sp.2 sites
- Devonoproductus2 sites
- Hypothyridina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Petrocrania famelica, 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 brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa5
- Homeomorphy between Devonian brachiopod communities in France and Iowa2
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Petrocrania famelica 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 Petrocrania famelica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petrocrania famelica 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 itPetrocrania through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Whitfield 1872)