Acidusus occultatus
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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.
6 occurrences of Acidusus occultatus 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
6 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Acidusus occultatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acidusus occultatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Acidusus occultatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Arthropoda3 sites
- Choia carteri3 sites
- Choia utahensis3 sites
- Diagoniella3 sites
- Diplorrhina3 sites
- Doryagnostus incertus3 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons3 sites
- Modocia3 sites
- Morania fragmenta3 sites
- Naraoia compacta3 sites
- Ptychagnostus punctuosus3 sites
- Valospongia3 sites
- Acadagnostus acadica2 sites
- Acrothele subsidua2 sites
- Altiocculus harrisi2 sites
- Asaphiscus wheeleri2 sites
- Bathyuriscus fimbriatus2 sites
- Branchiocaris pretiosa2 sites
- Buccaspinea cooperi2 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
- Diagoniella cyathiformis2 sites
- Diagoniella hindei2 sites
- Dicranocaris guntherorum2 sites
- Fuxianospira girata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acidusus occultatus, 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- Middle Cambrian agnostids: systematics and biostratigraphy.3
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)2
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
Each of the 6 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 Acidusus occultatus 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 Acidusus occultatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acidusus occultatus 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)