Aphrosalpingidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgelasidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 238 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 120 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 36 of 120 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 120 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 120 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 120 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 35 of 120 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 33 of 120 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 120 occurrences466–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–439 Mya — about 9 occurrences439–430 Mya — about 6 occurrences430–421 Mya — about 28 occurrences421–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–232 Mya — about 50 occurrences232–223 Mya — about 10 occurrences223–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.5 Mya211.18 Mya466 Mya196 Mya

120 occurrences of Aphrosalpingidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

120 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

25 formations

Heceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.48°WWetterstein Limestone — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWetterstein Limestone — 49.00°N, 18.48°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.42°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.57°N, 20.45°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°ELechkogel — 47.43°N, 13.67°ELechkogel — 47.55°N, 14.52°ELechkogel — 46.67°N, 14.85°ELechkogel — 48.00°N, 16.23°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°ERaminger Limestone — 48.95°N, 19.25°ERaminger Limestone — 49.22°N, 19.57°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EWettersteinkalk — 47.40°N, 11.38°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°ELechkogel — 46.17°N, 13.92°EKangaroo Creek — 41.41°N, 122.76°WKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WAksala — 61.07°N, 134.88°WPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EPanormide — 37.90°N, 14.00°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°ECalcari — 39.80°N, 16.12°ERaminger Dolomite — 48.67°N, 18.33°EWetterstein reef limestone — 48.55°N, 20.73°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EFossil Creek Volcanics — 65.62°N, 147.35°WAuernig — 46.57°N, 13.25°ESan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°E

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The named rock units Aphrosalpingidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrosalpingidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Aphrosalpingidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

489 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Aphrosalpingidae, 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

31 references

Each of the 120 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. 19 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 Aphrosalpingidae 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 Aphrosalpingidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aphrosalpingidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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. Myagkova 1955