Alveolites suborbicularis

Alveolites suborbicularis

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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 least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 61 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 60 of 61 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 61 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 12 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 15 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 10 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 5 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 3 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 3 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya375.2 Mya426 Mya358 Mya

61 occurrences of Alveolites suborbicularis 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

61 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

21 formations

Combe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.67°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.93°N, 20.53°EKowala — 50.75°N, 20.78°EKowala — 50.88°N, 20.57°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EPortilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.10°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.85°WPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WSadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WAisemont — 50.58°N, 5.65°EAisemont — 50.57°N, 5.33°EChakiryul — 38.47°N, 74.37°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.92°ERefrath — 50.97°N, 7.15°ERefrath — 50.97°N, 7.12°EZarubino — 55.63°N, 85.67°EZarubino — 55.45°N, 85.52°ECelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°ENapier — 18.00°S, 125.50°E"Massenkalk" — 51.22°N, 7.08°EHonseler Schichten — 51.05°N, 7.63°EHohenhöfer-Hohräcker Schichten — 50.98°N, 7.45°EFreilingen — 50.42°N, 6.82°EHamra — 56.92°N, 18.12°ECu Bai — 17.23°N, 106.68°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°EMeydan — 38.24°N, 41.32°E

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The named rock units Alveolites suborbicularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveolites suborbicularis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Alveolites suborbicularis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Alveolites suborbicularis, 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

19 references

Each of the 61 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. 7 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

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Picture of Alveolites suborbicularis

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Lamarck 1801