Phragmolites excavatus
No picture of Phragmolites excavatus 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 Phragmolites excavatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhragmolitesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phragmolites excavatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phragmolites excavatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phragmolites excavatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phragmolites excavatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bodophyllum euthum1 site
- Boucotspira carinifer1 site
- Cataschisma pillula1 site
- Clisospira christianieae1 site
- Cyclonema rupestre1 site
- Cyrtospira ornatus1 site
- Densigrewingkia pyrgoidea1 site
- Holopea ampullacea1 site
- Hormotoma insignis1 site
- Hormotoma meyendorfi1 site
- Loxonema broeggeri1 site
- Loxonema infrasilurica1 site
- Loxoplocus vermetus1 site
- Maclurina serpentrionalis1 site
- Maclurites expansa1 site
- Megalomphala carinata1 site
- Megalomphala pinguis1 site
- Pachystrophia devexa1 site
- Paraliospira rupestris1 site
- Phragmolites lindstroemi1 site
- Pygmaeoconus compressus1 site
- Ruedemannia lirata1 site
- Streptelasma primum1 site
- Subulites subula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phragmolites excavatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Phragmolites excavatus 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 Phragmolites excavatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phragmolites excavatus 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 itPhragmolites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken and Perner 1925)