Anisocyamus
No picture of Anisocyamus 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 Anisocyamus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrimitiopsidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Anisocyamus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group2
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The named rock units Anisocyamus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anisocyamus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anisocyamus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Atelelasma primotica1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Desmorthis planus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Isotelus1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) occidentalis1 site
- Lophospira1 site
- Orthambonites1 site
- Paterulus sp.1 site
- Pseudomera1 site
- Ptychopleurella1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Remopleurides simulus1 site
- Skenidioides oklahomensis1 site
- Sowerbyella1 site
- Stegnopsis1 site
- Strophomena1 site
- Valcourea1 site
- Weirchellatia sp.1 site
- Winchellatia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anisocyamus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States1
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Anisocyamus 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 Anisocyamus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anisocyamus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrimitiopsidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.