Antipleuridae

Hercynella Kayser, 1878, a relative of Antipleuridae — not Antipleuridae itself

Not Antipleuridae. This is Hercynella Kayser, 1878, a relative — both are Antipleuridae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntipleuroideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 171 occurrencesSilurian — about 37 of 171 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 132 of 171 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 171 occurrencesCarboniferous445–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 8 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 20 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 28 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 28 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 15 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 8 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 8 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 8 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 5 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 5 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 7 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 7 occurrences382–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–372 Mya — about 1 occurrence372–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–356 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440.5 Mya358.86 Mya445 Mya350 Mya

171 occurrences of Antipleuridae 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

171 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

41 formations

Lochkov — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELochkov — 49.98°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 50.03°N, 14.40°EKess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ELochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.43°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.46°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WRadotin Limestone — 49.99°N, 14.34°ENiveau á Antipleura — 30.70°N, 4.40°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°ESeewarte Kalk — 46.50°N, 13.00°ESyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.00°WKochumdek — 49.40°N, 136.38°ESkaneateles — 42.80°N, 76.69°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WHunsrueck Slate — 49.87°N, 7.38°EHunsrueck Slate — 49.85°N, 7.32°ESherburne — 42.63°N, 76.70°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WRadotinkalk — 49.01°N, 13.75°EOnondaga — 40.48°N, 78.27°WBadenas — 41.63°N, 0.88°WYea — 37.22°S, 145.43°ECave Hill — 37.75°S, 145.35°EMegrane Shale — 31.90°N, 3.13°W

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The named rock units Antipleuridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Antipleuridae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Antipleuridae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

945 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Antipleuridae, 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

57 references

Each of the 171 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. 45 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 content1

Picture of Hercynella Kayser, 1878

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Antipleuridae 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 itAntipleuroidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1891