Antiquatonia

Antiquatonia is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Productida and family Productidae. Specimens have been found in Carboniferous beds across many continents, suggesting the genus had a cosmopolitan distribution. Species level taxonomy of Antiquatonia is in need of revision.

Antiquatonia

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
RetariiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 269 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 237 of 269 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 32 of 269 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 3 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 3 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 3 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 6 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 12 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 10 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 8 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 19 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 19 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 8 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 22 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 25 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 49 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 39 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 5 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 3 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 4 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 6 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 5 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346.7 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

269 occurrences of Antiquatonia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

269 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

77 formations

Graham — 33.03°N, 98.65°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 33.01°N, 98.52°WGraham — 31.49°N, 99.31°WGraham — 32.54°N, 98.87°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.15°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WCherokee Shale — 37.35°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.30°N, 94.95°WCherokee Shale — 37.37°N, 94.84°WCherokee Shale — 37.14°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.54°N, 94.64°WCherokee Shale — 37.37°N, 94.86°WCherokee Shale — 37.32°N, 94.68°WCherokee Shale — 37.04°N, 95.15°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WCoyote Butte — 43.98°N, 119.77°WCoyote Butte — 43.92°N, 119.88°WCoyote Butte — 43.93°N, 119.76°WCoyote Butte — 43.98°N, 119.75°WCoyote Butte — 44.06°N, 119.68°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.32°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 41.94°N, 107.36°WAmsden — 43.89°N, 110.09°WAmsden — 44.45°N, 106.91°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 45.75°N, 112.00°WNamoi — 31.03°S, 150.57°EFort Scott Limestone — 38.37°N, 93.78°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.61°N, 94.75°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.11°N, 95.22°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.48°N, 94.93°WGaptank — 30.21°N, 103.32°WGaptank — 30.18°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.50°N, 103.00°WSausbee — 35.76°N, 95.20°WSausbee — 35.55°N, 95.17°WSausbee — 35.75°N, 94.89°WMonsal Dale Limestone — 53.19°N, 1.75°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°WJungle Creek — 65.88°N, 136.15°WJungle Creek — 64.98°N, 140.88°WJungle Creek — 65.39°N, 140.70°WJungle Creek — 65.30°N, 140.76°WHeath — 46.93°N, 109.28°WHeath — 46.95°N, 109.15°WHeath — 46.92°N, 109.09°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WSurrett Canyon — 44.25°N, 114.08°WSurrett Canyon — 44.38°N, 113.87°WSurrett Canyon — 44.37°N, 113.82°WSurrett Canyon — 44.22°N, 113.50°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WHale — 36.01°N, 94.19°WHale — 35.77°N, 94.47°WGua Musang — 4.57°N, 102.00°EWaverley — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWaverley — 32.10°S, 151.13°ETahaqi — 37.00°N, 79.00°ECaddo Creek — 33.00°N, 98.67°WCaddo Creek — 31.49°N, 99.31°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WMonroe Canyon — 43.83°N, 111.48°W

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The named rock units Antiquatonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Antiquatonia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Antiquatonia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Antiquatonia, 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

60 references

Each of the 269 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. 48 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 Antiquatonia

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Antiquatonia 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miloradovich 1945)