Aristerella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 257 million years on record.

The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 13 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrences463–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–445 Mya — about 6 occurrences206–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–188 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456.8 Mya199.5 Mya463 Mya188 Mya

13 occurrences of Aristerella 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

13 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

9 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 44.50°N, 93.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCalcare Massiccio — 43.37°N, 12.20°EViivikonna — 59.32°N, 24.51°EDecorah — 43.84°N, 92.19°W

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

Aristerella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aristerella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Aristerella, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 Aristerella 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 Aristerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aristerella 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 itModiomorphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1894