Archidesmus macnicoli
No picture of Archidesmus macnicoli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archidesmus macnicoli itself, so it was not used. 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 Archidesmus macnicoli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchidesmusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Archidesmus macnicoli on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Dundee Flagstone Formation · Arbuthnott-Garvock Group3
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The named rock units Archidesmus macnicoli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archidesmus macnicoli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Archidesmus macnicoli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Mesacanthus mitchelli2 sites
- Brachyacanthus1 site
- Cephalaspis1 site
- Climatius reticulatus1 site
- Euthacanthus macnicoli1 site
- Ischnacanthus gracilis1 site
- Parahughmilleria1 site
- Parexus recurvus1 site
- Pterygotus1 site
- Sigmastria dilata1 site
- Uraniacanthus1 site
- Uraniacanthus curtus1 site
- Vernicomacanthus uncinatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archidesmus macnicoli, 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- Morphology and taxonomy of Paleozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Chilognatha: Archipolypoda) from Scotland2
- On some fossil myriapods from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire1
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. 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 Archidesmus macnicoli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archidesmus macnicoli itself, so it was not used.
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 Archidesmus macnicoli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archidesmus macnicoli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArchidesmus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peach 1882