Archaeoconularia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConulariidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Conulariidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Conulariidae
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 450.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
15 occurrences of Archaeoconularia 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
15 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
10 formations
- Letna Formation3
- Liben Formation2
- Vinice Formation2
- Zahorany Formation2
- Sarka Formation1
- Dobrotiva Formation1
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The named rock units Archaeoconularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeoconularia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archaeoconularia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
646 taxa- Sinuitopsis neglecta9 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica6 sites
- Deceptrix6 sites
- Hastatellina hastata6 sites
- Hyolithes6 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi6 sites
- Paterula bohemica6 sites
- Praeleda compar6 sites
- Exoconularia5 sites
- Metaconularia5 sites
- Onniella5 sites
- Rhombifera bohemica5 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi5 sites
- Synek antiquus5 sites
- Actinopeltis completa4 sites
- Aegiromena aquila4 sites
- Barrandicella tarda4 sites
- Colpocoryphe grandis4 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Ctenodonta (Ctenodonta) bohemica4 sites
- Drabovia redux4 sites
- Hippula latens4 sites
- Myoplusia4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Archaeoconularia, 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 biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia12
- Cnidarians of the Cabrières Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovician, France): diversity, taphonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography1
- The bivalve fauna from the Letná Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Bohemia: Significance for palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and diversification of bivalves1
- Estudio bioestratigráfico del Ordovicico en el sinclinal del Valle (Provincia de Sevilla, so. de España)1
Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Archaeoconularia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConulariidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucek 1939