Acidiphorus williamsi
No picture of Acidiphorus williamsi 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 williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Acidiphorus williamsi 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
12 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
4 formations
- Joins Formation · Simpson Group8
- Garden City Formation2
- Dounans Limestone Formation1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Acidiphorus williamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acidiphorus williamsi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acidiphorus williamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Carolinites genacinaca3 sites
- Dimeropygiella caudanodosa2 sites
- Diparelasma2 sites
- Forteyops sexapugia2 sites
- Hesperonomia2 sites
- Isoteloides2 sites
- Kirkella declevita2 sites
- Lachnostoma latucelsum2 sites
- Pseudocybele nasuta2 sites
- Archaeorthis1 site
- Bathyurellus1 site
- Bathyuridae1 site
- Calliops troosti1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Carolinites sibiricus1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Ceraurinella1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtodiscus1 site
- Distazeris1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Ectenonotus connemaricus1 site
- Endoceratoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Acidiphorus williamsi, 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
4 references- Simpson Group (Middle Ordovician) trilobites of Oklahoma8
- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas2
- Early Ordovician Dounans Limestone fauna, Highland Border Complex, Scotland1
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California1
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Acidiphorus williamsi 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 williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acidiphorus williamsi 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 itAcidiphorus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross 1951)