Acidiphorus brighti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcidiphorusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Acidiphorus brighti 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
1 formation
- Wah Wah Formation · Pogonip Group4
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The named rock units Acidiphorus brighti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acidiphorus brighti and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acidiphorus brighti and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Cybelopsis4 sites
- Lachnostoma latucelsum4 sites
- Dimeropygiella caudanodosa3 sites
- Kirkella declevita3 sites
- Pseudomera insolita3 sites
- Zittelloceras3 sites
- Benthamaspis diminutiva2 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca2 sites
- Hesperonomia2 sites
- Pseudocybele nasuta2 sites
- Raphistomina2 sites
- Barrandia1 site
- Bellerophontina1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Diparelasma1 site
- Forteyops sexapugia1 site
- Goniotelina brevis1 site
- Isoteloides polaris1 site
- Lachnostoma1 site
- Presbynileus utahensis1 site
- Tritoechia sinuata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acidiphorus brighti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea3
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acidiphorus brighti 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 Acidiphorus brighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acidiphorus brighti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itAcidiphorus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze 1953)