Aesopomum varistriatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 9 occurrencesDevonian423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419.62 Mya413.02 Mya423.2 Mya410.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Aesopomum varistriatus 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

9 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

3 formations

Roberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WWindmill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WRoberts Mountains — 39.95°N, 116.31°W

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

Aesopomum varistriatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aesopomum varistriatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aesopomum varistriatus, 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

2 references

Each of the 9 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 Aesopomum varistriatus 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 Aesopomum varistriatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aesopomum varistriatus 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 itAesopomum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1970