Arisaigia

No picture of Arisaigia 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 Arisaigia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalletiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445.5 Mya419.62 Mya450.3 Mya412.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Arisaigia on record. 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

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

Bostów — 50.90°N, 21.08°EBostów — 51.25°N, 21.57°EUnknown — 30.25°N, 82.83°WBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°W

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The named rock units Arisaigia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Arisaigia, 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

3 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Arisaigia 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 Arisaigia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Arisaigia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMalletiidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1918