Archaeoscyphia pulchra
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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 9.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
7 occurrences of Archaeoscyphia pulchra 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
7 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
6 formations
- San Juan Formation2
- Fenhsiang Formation1
- Mingan Formation1
- Los Azules Formation1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Badger Flat Formation · Mazourka Group1
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The named rock units Archaeoscyphia pulchra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeoscyphia pulchra and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archaeoscyphia pulchra and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Annelida3 sites
- Brachiopoda3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Hudsonospongia cyclostoma3 sites
- Patellispongia oculata3 sites
- Pelmatozoa3 sites
- Rhopalocoelia3 sites
- Rhopalocoelia clarkii3 sites
- Archaeoscyphia minganensis2 sites
- Archaeoscyphia tenuis2 sites
- Calycocoelia2 sites
- Calycocoelia typicalis2 sites
- Hudsonospongia irregularis2 sites
- Lissocoelia ramosa2 sites
- Patellispongia robusta2 sites
- Porifera2 sites
- Psarodictyum2 sites
- Pseudomera barrandei2 sites
- Trepostomata2 sites
- Allosacus sp.1 site
- Anthaspidella amplia1 site
- Anthaspidella clintoni1 site
- Anthaspidella traini1 site
- Archaeoscyphia undulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Archaeoscyphia pulchra, 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- Epizoan-sponge Interactions in the Early Ordovician of the Argentine Precordillera3
- Lower Ordovician lithistid sponges from the eastern Yangtze Gorge area, Hubei, China1
- Lower and Middle Ordovician lithistid demosponges from the Mingan Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada1
- Middle and Upper(?) Ordovician Rocks of Independence Quadrangle, California1
- A new early Ordovician sponge fauna1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Archaeoscyphia pulchra 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 Archaeoscyphia pulchra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeoscyphia pulchra was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (Bassler 1927)