Acanthambonia delicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthamboniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.4 Mya to 459.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 464.3 Mya to 458 Mya.
4 occurrences of Acanthambonia delicata 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Acanthambonia delicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthambonia delicata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acanthambonia delicata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Conotreta mica4 sites
- Orbiculoideinae4 sites
- Scaphelasma mica4 sites
- Cyrtonotreta3 sites
- Eoconulus robustus3 sites
- Paterula3 sites
- Talasotreta deformis3 sites
- Tegulella minuta3 sites
- Biernatia holmi2 sites
- Conotreta siljanensis2 sites
- Eoconulus2 sites
- Eoconulus clivosus2 sites
- Euprimites2 sites
- Hisingerella unguicula2 sites
- Lingulella alata2 sites
- Lingulellinae2 sites
- Myotreta dalecarlica2 sites
- Plectasaphus plicicostis2 sites
- Pseudomegalaspis patagiata2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Rowellella lamellosa2 sites
- Spondylotreta2 sites
- Steusloffia linnarssoni2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acanthambonia delicata, 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
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
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No picture of Acanthambonia delicata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Acanthambonia delicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthambonia delicata 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 itAcanthambonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holmer 1989