Acrophyllidae

Acrophyllum Thomson & Nicholson, 1876, a relative of Acrophyllidae — not Acrophyllidae itself

Not Acrophyllidae. This is Acrophyllum Thomson & Nicholson, 1876, a relative — both are Acrophyllidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StreptelasmatinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 15 of 15 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 15 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–381 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393.47 Mya365.2 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

15 occurrences of Acrophyllidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

15 occurrences

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

7 formations

Jeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WDyer — 39.72°N, 107.50°WDyer — 39.80°N, 107.17°WKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Acrophyllidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrophyllidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acrophyllidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Acrophyllidae, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Acrophyllum Thomson & Nicholson, 1876

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStreptelasmatina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stumm 1949