Acidusus germanus
No picture of Acidusus germanus 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 Acidusus germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcidususPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Ptychagnostidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acidusus germanus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Acidusus germanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acidusus germanus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Acidusus germanus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Diplorrhina2 sites
- Bolaspidella1 site
- Choia hindei1 site
- Diagoniella cyathiformis1 site
- Doryagnostus1 site
- Emeraldella1 site
- Goniagnostus nathorsti1 site
- Hamptonia bowerbanki1 site
- Hypagnostus parvifrons1 site
- Leptomitella metta1 site
- Lingulata1 site
- Modocia1 site
- Morania fragmenta1 site
- Perspicaris1 site
- Ptychagnostus punctuosus1 site
- Schmalenseeia1 site
- Tuzoia guntheri1 site
- Utaspis1 site
- Valenagnostus imitans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acidusus germanus, 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- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
- Middle Cambrian agnostids: systematics and biostratigraphy.1
Each of the 2 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 Acidusus germanus 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 Acidusus germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acidusus germanus 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 itAcidusus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Öpik 1979)