Arrythmocricus
Debrenne, M. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- ArchaeocyathidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Arrythmocricus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
9 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
- Puerto Blanco Formation2
- Scott Canyon Formation2
- Rosella Formation · Atan Group2
- Harkless Formation1
- Sekwi Formation1
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The named rock units Arrythmocricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arrythmocricus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Arrythmocricus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Metaldetes3 sites
- Renalcis3 sites
- Archaeocyathus2 sites
- Archaeocyathus arborensis2 sites
- Aulocricus2 sites
- Cordilleracyathus2 sites
- Dictyocyathus2 sites
- Paranacyathus2 sites
- Protopharetra2 sites
- Retilamina2 sites
- Rotundocyathus2 sites
- Bivalvia1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Kyrshabaktella1 site
- Ogygopsis1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Palmericyathus1 site
- Parethmophyllum1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Perissopyge triangulata1 site
- Plicocyathus1 site
- Pycnoidocyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Arrythmocricus, 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- Calcaires a archaeocyathes du Cambrien inferieur du nord de la Colombie Britannique (Canada), implications paleogeographiques et precisions sur l'extension du continent Americano-Koryakien [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath limestones of northern British Columbia (Canada), paleogeographic implications and precisions on the Americano-Koryakian continent extension]3
- Analyse sedimentologique et paleontologie de calcaires organogenes du Cambrien inferieur de Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA) [Sedimentology and paleontology of the Lower Cambrian organogenic limestones from Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA)]2
- Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths2
- New Archaeocyathan occurrences in the Upper Harkless Formation (Lower Cabrian of western Nevada)1
- Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada)1
Each of the 9 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 content1
Picture of Arrythmocricus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Debrenne, M.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arrythmocricus 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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What may have been alongside itArchaeocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.