Altajella
No picture of Altajella 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 Altajella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BojothyridinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Altajella 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Altajella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Altajella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Altajella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Aesopomum1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Anastrophia1 site
- Ancillotoechia1 site
- Ancillotoechia gutta1 site
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa)1 site
- Coelospira pusilla1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Desquamatia1 site
- Dicoelosia1 site
- Drahanostrophia1 site
- Gypidula pelagica1 site
- Howellella1 site
- Isorthis1 site
- Leptagonia1 site
- Leptostrophia inequicostella1 site
- Lissatrypa1 site
- Machaeraria paraformosa1 site
- Meristella1 site
- Mesodouvillina1 site
- Nucleospira1 site
- Protocortezorthis1 site
- Resserella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Altajella, 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- Tyazheva et al., 19765
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Altajella 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 Altajella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Altajella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBojothyridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kulkov 1962