Amerista

No picture of Amerista was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Amerista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeristinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 7.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesSilurian431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431.1 Mya422.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Amerista on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1 formation

Canon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°W

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

Amerista and its relatives

Silurian

Where Amerista and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Amerista, 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

1 reference

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. 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 Amerista was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Amerista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Amerista 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.

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What may have been alongside itMeristinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.