Achatella (Achatella)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AchatellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Achatella (Achatella) 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
5 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
- Craighead Formation · Barr Group2
- Pabos Formation2
- Grande Coupe Formation1
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The named rock units Achatella (Achatella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Achatella (Achatella) and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Achatella (Achatella) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Celtencrinurus praecursor2 sites
- Ceraurinus icarus2 sites
- Ceraurus2 sites
- Kettneraspis2 sites
- Meadowtownella2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Amphilichas1 site
- Amphilichas declivis1 site
- Amphilichas planus1 site
- Atractopyge killochanensis1 site
- Brachymimulus1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Calyptaulax brongniartii1 site
- Ceraurus binodosus1 site
- Cheirurus percensis1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Cliftonia1 site
- Cybele1 site
- Cybeloides spinifera1 site
- Cyclopyge vigilans1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Cyphoproetus bellus1 site
- Cyphoproetus facetus1 site
- Decoroproetus subornatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Achatella (Achatella), 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
3 references- Trilobites of the Pabos Formation (Ashgillian, Upper Ordovician), Percé area, Quebec3
- Pterygometopine Trilobites from the Ordovician of Baltoscandia1
- Caradocian trilobites from the mudstones at Craighead Quarry, near Girvan, Ayrshire1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Achatella (Achatella) 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 Achatella (Achatella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Achatella (Achatella) 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 itAchatella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delo 1935