Acrothelidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrotheloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 182 of 200 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 18 of 200 occurrencesOrdovician541–537 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 2 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 2 occurrences531–528 Mya — about 2 occurrences528–525 Mya — about 4 occurrences525–522 Mya — about 4 occurrences522–519 Mya — about 9 occurrences519–516 Mya — about 12 occurrences516–513 Mya — about 32 occurrences513–510 Mya — about 26 occurrences510–507 Mya — about 20 occurrences507–503 Mya — about 26 occurrences503–500 Mya — about 19 occurrences500–497 Mya — about 15 occurrences497–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521 Mya458.2 Mya541 Mya448 Mya

200 occurrences of Acrothelidae 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

200 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

81 formations

Forteau — 49.52°N, 57.71°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.82°WTindall Limestone — 13.33°S, 130.63°ETindall Limestone — 13.50°S, 131.07°ETindall Limestone — 13.88°S, 131.15°ETindall Limestone — 13.82°S, 131.35°ETindall Limestone — 14.25°S, 131.38°ETindall Limestone — 14.50°S, 132.17°ETindall Limestone — 13.68°S, 131.33°ETindall Limestone — 14.42°S, 132.25°EMernmerna Formation — 30.72°S, 139.18°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EWulongqing — 25.68°N, 102.17°EMernmerna — 31.02°S, 139.24°EMernmerna — 30.79°S, 139.14°EWirrapowie Limestone — 30.79°S, 139.14°EPioche Shale — 37.77°N, 114.56°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.53°N, 114.73°WJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EJince — 49.00°N, 14.00°ELangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°WEl Gavilán — 28.92°N, 109.29°WGiles Creek Dolostone — 23.61°S, 134.48°EAjax Limestone — 30.60°S, 138.33°ENepabunna Siltstone — 30.72°S, 139.18°EWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 111.59°WWheeler Shale — 39.20°N, 113.30°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WKinzers — 39.96°N, 76.73°WKinzers — 39.92°N, 76.85°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°ELancara — 43.01°N, 6.01°WLancara — 42.92°N, 5.30°WKussak — 32.65°N, 73.00°EKussak — 32.74°N, 73.14°EMount Whyte — 52.83°N, 119.25°WUte — 42.19°N, 112.25°WUte — 41.57°N, 112.05°WTrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKlabava — 49.71°N, 13.65°EArrojos — 30.42°N, 111.93°W

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The named rock units Acrothelidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrothelidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Acrothelidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

1,031 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 178 sites for Acrothelidae, 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

83 references

Each of the 200 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. 71 further references are not listed. 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 Acrothelidae 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 Acrothelidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acrothelidae 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 itAcrotheloidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1893