Arachnophyllum pentagonum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArachnophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Arachnophyllum pentagonum 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
- La Vieille Formation · Chaleurs Group2
- Louisville Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Arachnophyllum pentagonum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arachnophyllum pentagonum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Arachnophyllum pentagonum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Favosites favosus3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Barrandella kindlei2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Costistricklandia gaspeensis2 sites
- Cystiphyllum2 sites
- Dolerorthis flabellites2 sites
- Ekwanoscutellum ekwanaspis2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Favosites hisingeri2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Ketophyllum eriphyle2 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis2 sites
- Plasmopora2 sites
- Porpites rotuloides2 sites
- Syringopora bifurcata2 sites
- Syringopora compacta2 sites
- Acanthocyclus porpitoides1 site
- Amphicyrtoceras1 site
- Anisophyllum1 site
- Arachnophyllum approximatum1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Asthenophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Arachnophyllum pentagonum, 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
2 references- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé2
- Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Arachnophyllum pentagonum 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 Arachnophyllum pentagonum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arachnophyllum pentagonum 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 itArachnophyllum through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)