Akmolina

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EphippelasmatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 499.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 8 of 12 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 4 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician500–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–496 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497 Mya469.4 Mya500.3 Mya457.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Akmolina 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

12 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

6 formations

Zhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBestogai — 43.62°N, 69.94°EDeh-Molla U16 — 36.36°N, 54.75°ESluice Box — 42.27°S, 172.27°EWysoczki Chalcedonite — 50.67°N, 21.27°ELas Chacritas — 30.48°S, 68.84°W

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

Akmolina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Akmolina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Akmolina, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Akmolina 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 itEphippelasmatidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov and Holmer 1994