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Anaphragma ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1004454	https://www.gbif.org/species/1004454
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	25213	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=25213

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Stenolaemata : Trepostomatida : Amplexoporidae : Anaphragma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Stenolaemata : Trepostomata : Amplexoporidae : Anaphragma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
-	Polyzoa
phylum	Bryozoa	Ehrenberg 1831
class	Stenolaemata	Borg 1926
order	Trepostomata	Ulrich 1882
family	Amplexoporidae	Miller 1889
genus	Anaphragma	Ulrich & Bassler 1904

Scientific Name

Anaphragma Ulrich & Bassler, 1904

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 47, no. 1467

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anaphragma	genus	belongs to Trematoporidae	stated with evidence	Bassler, 1911
Anaphragma	genus	belongs to Trepostomida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Anaphragma	genus	belongs to Amplexoporinae	stated with evidence	Koromyslova, 2011
Anaphragma	genus	belongs to Amplexoporidae	stated with evidence	Jiménez-Sánchez et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

470 - 467 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

439 - 433 Ma
Silurian

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Stenolaemata)

Vision

blind (based on Stenolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Stenolaemata)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Stenolaemata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anaphragma delicatulum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma dnestrense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma hermitagensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anaphragma meneghinii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma minutum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma mirabile ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Anaphragma portanense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma shucknellense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaphragma undulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Anaphragma verectum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	470 Ma Middle Ordovician	467 Ma Middle Ordovician
Anaphragma vetustum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Anaphragma Ulrich and Bassler
1911	Anaphragma Bassler
2002	Anaphragma Sepkoski, Jr.
2011	Anaphragma Koromyslova
2015	Anaphragma Jiménez-Sánchez et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Bassler R. S. (1911) The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 77, 1-375

Koromyslova A.V. (2011) Bryozoans of the Latorp and Volkhov Horizons (Lower–Middle Ordovician) of the Leningrad Region, Paleontological Journal 45 8, 887-980 doi:10.1134/S0031030111080028

Jiménez-Sánchez A., Vennin E., et al (2015) Trepostomate bryozoans from the upper Katian (Upper Ordovician) of Morocco: gigantism in high latitude Gondwana platforms, Journal of Paleontology 89 2, 195-221

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 47, no. 1467 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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