Anticostia

No picture of Anticostia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anticostia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 88 of 88 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 88 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 13 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 13 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 13 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 11 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 10 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences450.1 Mya445.2 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

88 occurrences of Anticostia 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

88 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

13 formations

Vinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 62.95°WYinpingshan — 41.22°N, 87.57°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZebra Cliffs — 82.72°N, 76.67°WZebra Cliffs — 82.72°N, 76.87°WZebra Cliffs — 82.73°N, 77.00°WWufeng — 27.60°N, 105.42°ETianlingkou — 25.71°N, 110.48°EKráluv Dvur — 49.88°N, 14.03°EKráluv Dvur — 49.93°N, 14.05°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.75°N, 118.42°ETanjung Dendang — 6.44°N, 99.88°EPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WAllen Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°W

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The named rock units Anticostia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anticostia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anticostia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Anticostia, 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

16 references

Each of the 88 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Anticostia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anticostia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Anticostia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itDiplograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart and Mitchell 1997