Archaeonassa
Searched as Archaeonassa fossulata. The Paleobiology Database treats Archaeonassa as the accepted name.
No picture of Archaeonassa was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeonassa firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 86 million years on record.
The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Archaeonassa 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician33%
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
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The named rock units Archaeonassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeonassa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archaeonassa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Bergaueria4 sites
- Helminthopsis4 sites
- Treptichnidae4 sites
- Archaeichnium haughtoni2 sites
- Aspidella2 sites
- Cloudina lucianoi2 sites
- Conichnus2 sites
- Corumbella werneri2 sites
- Gordia2 sites
- Helminthoidichnites2 sites
- Rangea schneiderhoehni2 sites
- Torrowangea2 sites
- <Thrombolite>1 site
- Aglaspidida1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calyptrina striata1 site
- Charniodiscus concentricus1 site
- Cheloniellida1 site
- Cruziana1 site
- Ernietta plateauensis1 site
- Eurypterida1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Archaeonassa, 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- When life got smart: The evolution of behavioral complexity through the Ediacaran and early Cambrian of NW Canada2
- Fuping Fauna: A deep-water fauna in the prime of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event1
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 Archaeonassa was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeonassa firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Archaeonassa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fenton and Fenton 1937