Apsotreta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrotretidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 500.5 Mya to 468 Mya.
20 occurrences of Apsotreta on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
20 occurrences- Cambrian90%
- Ordovician10%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Apsotreta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apsotreta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Apsotreta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Dunderbergia variagranula4 sites
- Dytremacephalus granulosus3 sites
- Kinsabia variegata3 sites
- Pterocephalia3 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Dysoristus2 sites
- Elburgia quinnensis2 sites
- Euorthisina2 sites
- Hardyoides tenerus2 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus2 sites
- Labiostria sigmoidalis2 sites
- Oslogonites2 sites
- Porifera2 sites
- Strigambitus blepharina2 sites
- Anebolithus1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Astraborthis1 site
- Bergamia1 site
- Blandicephalus texanus1 site
- Blountia1 site
- Cheilocephalus brevilobus1 site
- Cnemidopyge1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Coosella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Apsotreta, 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
4 references- The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas14
- Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California4
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) stratigraphy and faunas of the Carmarthen District, southwest Wales1
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire1
Each of the 20 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
Media content0
No picture of Apsotreta 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 Apsotreta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apsotreta 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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What may have been alongside itAcrotretidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1954