Aphrosalpinx

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FistulospongininaePBDB
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 most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 21 occurrencesSilurian — about 20 of 21 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 21 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.8 Mya410 Mya

21 occurrences of Aphrosalpinx 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

21 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

1 formation

Heceta — 55.79°N, 133.49°WHeceta — 55.81°N, 133.23°W

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The named rock units Aphrosalpinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrosalpinx and its relatives

Silurian

Where Aphrosalpinx and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Aphrosalpinx, 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

3 references

Each of the 21 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 Aphrosalpinx 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 Aphrosalpinx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aphrosalpinx 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 itFistulospongininae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.