Argutastrea arguta
No picture of Argutastrea arguta 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 Argutastrea arguta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgutastreaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Argutastrea arguta 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Argutastrea arguta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Argutastrea arguta and its relatives
DevonianWhere Argutastrea arguta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Alveolites1 site
- Atrypida1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Chostophyllum metula1 site
- Douvillina1 site
- Karpinskya1 site
- Mastopora1 site
- Moravophyllum1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Spirorbis1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Tentaculites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Argutastrea arguta, 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- Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada2
- Chostophyllum, a new genus of charactophyllid corals from the Middle Devonian of Western Canada1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Argutastrea arguta 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 Argutastrea arguta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Argutastrea arguta 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 itArgutastrea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crickmay 1960