Acosarina mesoplatys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcosarinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
101 occurrences of Acosarina mesoplatys on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
101 occurrences- Permian100%
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
8 formations
- Road Canyon Formation42
- Cathedral Mountain Formation33
- Bone Spring Formation4
- Cibolo Formation3
- Road Formation2
- Skinner Ranch Formation2
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The named rock units Acosarina mesoplatys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acosarina mesoplatys and its relatives
PermianWhere Acosarina mesoplatys and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
809 taxa- Meekella calathica64 sites
- Derbyia laqueata50 sites
- Megousia auriculata47 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus42 sites
- Hustedia42 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa42 sites
- Composita40 sites
- Echinauris irregularis39 sites
- Texarina wordensis35 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata33 sites
- Hercosia uddeni33 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata32 sites
- Dielasma31 sites
- Echinauris31 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata30 sites
- Composita crassa29 sites
- Stenoscisma triquetrum28 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata27 sites
- Derbyia informis26 sites
- Institella leonardensis25 sites
- Stenoscisma24 sites
- Derbyia23 sites
- Derbyia complicata23 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Acosarina mesoplatys, 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- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI74
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda25
- Upper Cisuralian-lower Guadalupian brachiopods from the Qarari Unit, Batain Plain, northeast Oman: systematics, palaeoecology and correlation1
- Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves1
Each of the 101 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 Acosarina mesoplatys 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 Acosarina mesoplatys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acosarina mesoplatys 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 itAcosarina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1931)