Archipelepis turbinata
No picture of Archipelepis turbinata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archipelepis turbinata 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 Archipelepis turbinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchipelepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Archipelepis turbinata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Archipelepis turbinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archipelepis turbinata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Archipelepis turbinata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Archipelepis bifurcata1 site
- Athenaegis chattertoni1 site
- Eestilepis prominens1 site
- Erepsilepis margaritifera1 site
- Frigorilepis caldwelli1 site
- Illoganellia colossea1 site
- Lanarkia horrida1 site
- Loganellia1 site
- Loganellia prolata1 site
- Loganellia sulcata1 site
- Pezopallichthys ritchiei1 site
- Phillipsilepis cornuta1 site
- Phillipsilepis crassa1 site
- Phillipsilepis pusilla1 site
- Shielia gibba1 site
- Shielia parca1 site
- Thelodus inauditus1 site
- Wellingtonella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Archipelepis turbinata, 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- New and biostratigraphically useful thelodonts from the Silurian of the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada4
- Hirnantian (Ordovician) through Wenlock (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, bioevents, and integration with graptolite biozones, Cape Phillips Formation slope facies, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands1
Each of the 5 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 Archipelepis turbinata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archipelepis turbinata 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 Archipelepis turbinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archipelepis turbinata 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 itArchipelepis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Soehn et al. 2001