Archaeoconularia insignis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeoconulariaPBDB
- 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.
9 occurrences of Archaeoconularia insignis 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
9 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
8 formations
- Liben Formation2
- Sarka Formation1
- Dobrotiva Formation1
- Letna Formation1
- Vinice Formation1
- Zahorany Formation1
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The named rock units Archaeoconularia insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeoconularia insignis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archaeoconularia insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
621 taxa- Sinuitopsis neglecta7 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica6 sites
- Deceptrix6 sites
- Hastatellina hastata6 sites
- Praeleda compar6 sites
- Hyolithes5 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi5 sites
- Paterula bohemica5 sites
- Rhombifera bohemica5 sites
- Synek antiquus5 sites
- Actinopeltis completa4 sites
- Aegiromena aquila4 sites
- Colpocoryphe grandis4 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Ctenodonta (Ctenodonta) bohemica4 sites
- Exoconularia4 sites
- Hippula latens4 sites
- Myoplusia4 sites
- Onniella4 sites
- Praenucula dispar dispar4 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra4 sites
- Pseudoconularia grandissima nobilis4 sites
- Selenopeltis macrophthalma4 sites
- Aristocystites bohemicus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Archaeoconularia insignis, 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- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia8
- Cnidarians of the Cabrières Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovician, France): diversity, taphonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography1
Each of the 9 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 insignis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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 itArchaeoconularia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1867)