Apatobolus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ObolinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 456.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 452.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Apatobolus 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
5 formations
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group2
- Klabava Formation1
- Furudal Formation1
- Llanfawr Mudstone Formation1
- Gilwern Volcanic Formation · Builth Volcanic Group1
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The named rock units Apatobolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apatobolus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apatobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Conodonta2 sites
- Conotreta davidsoni2 sites
- Conulariida2 sites
- Dalmanella cheesemani2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata2 sites
- Leptellina llandeiloensis2 sites
- Monobolina2 sites
- Ogyginus2 sites
- Palaeostrophomena kilbuchoensis2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Schizocrania2 sites
- Schizotreta medioradiata2 sites
- Sericoidea abdita2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sphenothallus2 sites
- Acanthambonia delicata1 site
- Acrotretida1 site
- Algae1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Anisonotus hornei1 site
- Anisopleurella balclatchiensis1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Apatobolus, 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- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda2
- A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)1
- Fauna and ecology of the holothurian bed, Llandrindod, Wales, UK (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician), and the oldest articulated holothuria1
- Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Apatobolus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apatobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apatobolus 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 itObolinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.