Archaeopus rostratus
No picture of Archaeopus rostratus 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 Archaeopus rostratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeopusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Retroplumoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Archaeopus rostratus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Archaeopus rostratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeopus rostratus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Archaeopus rostratus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Marsupites testudinarius2 sites
- Sphenoceramus elegans2 sites
- Sphenoceramus orientalis2 sites
- Acirsa delta1 site
- Amapondella amapondense1 site
- Anisomyon transformis1 site
- Damesites sugata1 site
- Dryophyllum1 site
- Epigoniceras epigonum1 site
- Eupachydiscus haradai usheri1 site
- Gaudryceras striatum1 site
- Glyptoxoceras1 site
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni1 site
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum1 site
- Marsupites1 site
- Platyceramus1 site
- Sphenoceramus sachalinensis1 site
- Volutoderma averillii1 site
- Zinsitys edwilsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeopus rostratus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province2
- Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada1
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 Archaeopus rostratus 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 Archaeopus rostratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeopus rostratus 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 itArchaeopus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schweitzer et al. 2003