Phragmosphaera expansus

No picture of Phragmosphaera expansus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phragmosphaera expansus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhragmosphaeraPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Pterothecidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterothecidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pterothecidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesSilurian431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426.7 Mya425 Mya431.1 Mya422.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Phragmosphaera expansus 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

12 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

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WWhitcliffe Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLower Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°W

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The named rock units Phragmosphaera expansus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phragmosphaera expansus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Phragmosphaera expansus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Phragmosphaera expansus, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Phragmosphaera expansus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phragmosphaera expansus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phragmosphaera expansus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itPhragmosphaera through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)