Phragmolites pannosus

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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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Phragmolites pannosus 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Phragmolites pannosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phragmolites pannosus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phragmolites pannosus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Clathrospira subconica4 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis4 sites
- Lophospira modesta4 sites
- Ischyrinia winchelli3 sites
- Liospira americana3 sites
- Alaskadiscus tenuis2 sites
- Metoptoma alceste2 sites
- Pterotheca anticostiana2 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata2 sites
- Archinacella estella1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bellerophon fraternus1 site
- Cyclonema thalia1 site
- Cyclonema varispirum1 site
- Palaeacmaea magnifica1 site
- Paupospira circe1 site
- Paupospira varians1 site
- Phragmolites desideratus1 site
- Rhaphistoma vaurealense1 site
- Salpingostoma canadensis1 site
- Sinuites bilobatus1 site
- Sphenosphaera laurentinus1 site
- Subulites richardsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Phragmolites pannosus, 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 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Phragmolites pannosus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phragmolites pannosus 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. (Billings 1866)