Anisactinella

Anisactinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplospirellinaePBDB
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 least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 19 of 28 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 9 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya233.6 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Anisactinella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

28 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

9 formations

Esino — 45.91°N, 9.69°EBuchenstein — 45.68°N, 11.23°EBuchenstein — 46.42°N, 11.80°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EMarmolata — 46.43°N, 11.82°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°EKorytnica Limestones — 49.08°N, 19.33°ENaocangjiangou — 36.20°N, 96.40°E

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The named rock units Anisactinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anisactinella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Anisactinella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

776 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Anisactinella, 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

14 references

Each of the 28 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. 2 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Anisactinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anisactinella 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 itDiplospirellinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1890)