Acanthocircus spelae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthocircusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acanthocircus spelae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
- Mörnsheim Formation · Weißjura Group1
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The named rock units Acanthocircus spelae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthocircus spelae and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Acanthocircus spelae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Acanthocircus breviaculeatus1 site
- Acanthocircus calvus1 site
- Acanthocircus echinocircus1 site
- Acanthocircus simplex1 site
- Acuticassis1 site
- Anaticapitula1 site
- Arachnoplecta1 site
- Cassideus1 site
- Cornutella1 site
- Cuniculiformis1 site
- Hexapylocapsa1 site
- Hollandocachonia haeckeli1 site
- Isometractinia fimbriata1 site
- Isometractinia wonae1 site
- Lententactinia nummulitica1 site
- Mendacastrum aculeatum1 site
- Mendacastrum baumgartneri1 site
- Moebicircus1 site
- Moebicircus furiosus1 site
- Napora1 site
- Napora bukryi1 site
- Napora pacifica1 site
- Odoghertites tithonianus1 site
- Poculinapora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthocircus spelae, 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 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 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 Acanthocircus spelae 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 Acanthocircus spelae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthocircus spelae 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 itAcanthocircus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica and Zügel 2008