Acrothele speciosa
No picture of Acrothele speciosa 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 Acrothele speciosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrothelePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acrothelidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Acrothelidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrothelidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acrothele speciosa 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Acrothele speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrothele speciosa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Acrothele speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acrotreta nitens1 site
- Alokistocare nactum1 site
- Alokistocare natale1 site
- Alokistocare noduliferum1 site
- Alokistocare notatum1 site
- Alokistocare nothum1 site
- Amecephalus normale1 site
- Athabaskia minor1 site
- Dictyonina pannula1 site
- Elrathia idahoensis1 site
- Lingulella idahoensis1 site
- Oryctocephalites reynoldsi1 site
- Pagetia fossula1 site
- Pentagnostus bonnerensis1 site
- Utia curio1 site
- Zacanthoides sampsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acrothele speciosa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Acrothele speciosa 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 Acrothele speciosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrothele speciosa 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 itAcrothele through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1938