Actinopteria

Actinopteria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 186 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 422 occurrencesSilurian — about 48 of 422 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 328 of 422 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 43 of 422 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 422 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 422 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 11 occurrences427–420 Mya — about 26 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 28 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 30 occurrences407–401 Mya — about 10 occurrences401–394 Mya — about 20 occurrences394–387 Mya — about 51 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 170 occurrences381–374 Mya — about 16 occurrences374–367 Mya — about 5 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 2 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences354–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 11 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 27 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences440.5 Mya254.14 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

422 occurrences of Actinopteria 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

422 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

108 formations

Geneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 74.30°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.40°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.15°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.38°N, 74.43°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.46°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.33°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.47°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.37°WSkaneateles — 42.91°N, 75.96°WSkaneateles — 42.96°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.66°N, 75.54°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WMahantango — 39.82°N, 78.49°WMahantango — 40.47°N, 76.95°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 76.92°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMount Ida — 34.42°S, 145.60°EMount Ida — 37.00°S, 144.00°ETriangle — 42.35°N, 75.89°WTriangle — 42.33°N, 75.85°WTriangle — 42.19°N, 75.87°WTriangle — 42.31°N, 75.60°WTriangle — 42.21°N, 75.79°WTriangle — 42.40°N, 75.31°WTriangle — 42.26°N, 75.45°WTriangle — 42.42°N, 75.86°WTully — 42.38°N, 74.43°WTully — 42.59°N, 75.18°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.54°N, 75.10°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WLynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WYingtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.39°ETabberabbera — 37.57°S, 147.38°EMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°ERacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WLuesma — 41.63°N, 0.88°WPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.00°N, 14.35°ETalacasto — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLos Espejos — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLos Espejos — 30.25°S, 68.75°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.29°N, 75.60°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EMaecuru — 0.50°S, 52.00°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMaecuru — 1.00°S, 55.00°W

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The named rock units Actinopteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinopteria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Actinopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 390 sites for Actinopteria, and this reads 240 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

98 references

Each of the 422 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. 86 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

Media content1

Picture of Actinopteria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Actinopteria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1884)