Alveolites fornicatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlveolitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alveolites fornicatus 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
3 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
- Burdekin Formation · Fanning River Group2
- Dushan Formation1
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The named rock units Alveolites fornicatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alveolites fornicatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Alveolites fornicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Actinostroma undulatum1 site
- Argustarea thomasi1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Clathrocoilona crassitexta1 site
- Clathrocoilona obliterata1 site
- Crassialveolites1 site
- Cystiphylloides1 site
- Disphyllum intermedium1 site
- Emanuella plicata1 site
- Fistuliporella1 site
- Fistuliramus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Habrostroma1 site
- Hedstroemia1 site
- Howittia dushanensis1 site
- Leiorhychus <sp. A>1 site
- Litophyllum1 site
- Mastopora compacta1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Parallelopora ostiolata1 site
- Pseudozaphrentis1 site
- Roseoporella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alveolites fornicatus, 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- Unusual shallow water Devonian coral community from Queensland and its recent analogues from the inshore Great Barrier Reef2
- The Jiwozhai patch reef: A palaeobiodiversity hotspot in middle Givetian (Devonian) of South China1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Alveolites fornicatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alveolites fornicatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alveolites fornicatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itAlveolites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlueter 1889