Archaeoscyphia annulata

Archaeoscyphia annulata

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
ArchaeoscyphiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 430.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician — about 13 of 18 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 18 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence471.3 Mya432.9 Mya488 Mya429 Mya

18 occurrences of Archaeoscyphia annulata 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

18 occurrences

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

6 formations

Kindblade — 34.93°N, 98.73°WKindblade — 34.38°N, 96.93°WKindblade — 34.37°N, 97.13°WKindblade — 34.42°N, 97.27°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WMcKelligon Canyon — 31.85°N, 106.48°WThornloe — 47.43°N, 79.57°WRich Fountain — 37.62°N, 90.63°W

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The named rock units Archaeoscyphia annulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Archaeoscyphia annulata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Archaeoscyphia annulata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Archaeoscyphia annulata, 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

5 references

Each of the 18 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 Archaeoscyphia annulata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Archaeoscyphia annulata 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 itArchaeoscyphia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rigby 1973)