Acrophyllum

No picture of Acrophyllum was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acrophyllum itself, so it was not used. 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 Acrophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrophyllidaePBDB
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 most 38 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesDevonian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420.4 Mya381.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Acrophyllum 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

8 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

5 formations

Jeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Acrophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Acrophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acrophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acrophyllum, 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

Each of the 8 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 Acrophyllum was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acrophyllum itself, so it was not used.

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 Acrophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acrophyllum 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson and Nicholson 1876