Phoenixites

Phoenixites is an early genus of the Falcitornoceratinae, a subfamily of the goniatitid Tornoceratidae family. This genus was named by Becker in 1995. The type species is "Tornoceras" frechi.

Phoenixites

UNKNOWN · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FalcitornoceratinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 383.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 20 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–375 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 2 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 2 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 2 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya372.15 Mya383.9 Mya358.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Phoenixites 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

20 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

5 formations

Gowanda — 42.40°N, 79.48°WGowanda — 42.50°N, 79.03°WGowanda — 42.40°N, 78.88°WGowanda — 42.62°N, 78.53°WGowanda — 42.65°N, 78.38°WDomanik — 63.51°N, 53.61°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EUst-Yarega — 63.53°N, 53.41°EBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°E

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The named rock units Phoenixites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phoenixites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Phoenixites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Phoenixites, 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

8 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Phoenixites

Source
GBIF
Credit
UNKNOWN
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phoenixites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFalcitornoceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Becker 1993