Actinoconchus planosulcatus

Searched as Actinoconchus planosulcata. The Paleobiology Database treats Actinoconchus planosulcatus as the accepted name.

No picture of Actinoconchus planosulcatus 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 Actinoconchus planosulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinoconchusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 10 occurrencesPermian349–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–336 Mya — about 3 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335.9 Mya259.857 Mya349 Mya252 Mya

10 occurrences of Actinoconchus planosulcatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

10 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

Waterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WGancaohu — 41.76°N, 86.15°EGancaohu — 41.73°N, 86.15°ETumenling — 44.77°N, 127.29°EGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WJulfa — 38.98°N, 45.52°E

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The named rock units Actinoconchus planosulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinoconchus planosulcatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Actinoconchus planosulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Actinoconchus planosulcatus, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Actinoconchus planosulcatus 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 Actinoconchus planosulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinoconchus planosulcatus 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 itActinoconchus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1836)