Anoplotheca

Anoplotheca

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnoplothecinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 20 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 18 of 20 occurrencesDevonian442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 6 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya382.31 Mya442 Mya371 Mya

20 occurrences of Anoplotheca 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

20 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

12 formations

Saint-Cenere — 48.13°N, 0.78°WOnondaga — 40.43°N, 78.39°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 78.27°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°ENeahga Shale — 36.68°N, 83.13°WOriskany Sandstone — 41.41°N, 75.66°WStinava-Chabicov — 50.00°N, 17.00°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WCortes — 42.97°N, 0.87°WRamblar — 41.13°N, 1.07°WRoss — 36.00°N, 88.00°WRed Mountain — 34.88°N, 85.37°WPort Ewen — 40.53°N, 78.06°W

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

Anoplotheca and its relatives

Devonian

Where Anoplotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Anoplotheca, 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

12 references

Each of the 20 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. 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

Media content1

Picture of Anoplotheca

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itAnoplothecinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.