Archinacella

Archinacella

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
ArchinacellidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Archinacellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Archinacellida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Archinacellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 117 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 116 of 117 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 117 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 6 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 9 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 9 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 14 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 16 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 8 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486.85 Mya448.8 Mya491.1 Mya442.2 Mya

117 occurrences of Archinacella 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

117 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

57 formations

Crown Point — 44.63°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WDecorah — 43.84°N, 92.19°WDecorah — 44.95°N, 93.07°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 36.17°N, 86.78°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.79°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WDay Point — 44.94°N, 73.45°WNicolet River — 45.45°N, 73.28°WNicolet River — 45.79°N, 72.86°WNicolet River — 45.66°N, 72.93°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 59.95°N, 10.75°EPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.02°N, 91.73°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WHusbergøya — 59.92°N, 10.72°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 49.77°N, 13.60°EKagawong — 45.78°N, 81.76°WKagawong — 45.90°N, 82.25°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.95°N, 93.07°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.42°WOxford — 45.21°N, 75.69°WLexington — 37.79°N, 84.50°WLexington — 37.99°N, 84.82°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WGeorgian Bay — 45.74°N, 81.61°W

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The named rock units Archinacella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archinacella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Archinacella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Archinacella, 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

42 references

Each of the 117 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Archinacella

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

No 3D scan of Archinacella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897