Aparchitella

No picture of Aparchitella 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 Aparchitella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AparchitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 54 of 54 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 54 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya449.2 Mya461.6 Mya442.6 Mya

54 occurrences of Aparchitella 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

54 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

7 formations

Mangazea — 63.00°N, 92.00°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.15°N, 91.43°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.56°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDolbor — 62.17°N, 91.42°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.30°N, 92.12°EZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EZagornyi — 62.00°N, 90.00°EChertovskaya — 57.00°N, 106.00°EBur — 63.00°N, 95.00°EPort Clarence Limestone — 66.48°N, 166.97°W

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

Aparchitella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aparchitella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Aparchitella, 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

5 references

Each of the 54 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Aparchitella 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 Aparchitella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aparchitella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.