Anisopleurella antiqua
No picture of Anisopleurella antiqua 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 Anisopleurella antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnisopleurellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anisopleurella antiqua 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
1 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
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The named rock units Anisopleurella antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anisopleurella antiqua and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anisopleurella antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Amphoriops1 site
- Bellimurina (Bellimurina) fluctuosa1 site
- Calyptolepta1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Dirafinesquina globosa1 site
- Dulankarella1 site
- Lepidomena multiplicata1 site
- Leptastichidia1 site
- Nileus1 site
- Opsimasaphus1 site
- Orthis1 site
- Phragmorthis1 site
- Polytoechia1 site
- Porambonites1 site
- Rogorthis1 site
- Saucrorthis obtusa1 site
- Semnanostrophia lata1 site
- Virgoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anisopleurella antiqua, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Anisopleurella antiqua 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 Anisopleurella antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anisopleurella antiqua 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 itAnisopleurella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov et al. 2016