Arthraria antiquata

No picture of Arthraria antiquata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthraria antiquata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArthrariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician527–525 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya477.1 Mya527 Mya467 Mya

2 occurrences of Arthraria antiquata 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

2 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

1 formation

Grebes Nest Point — 47.64°N, 52.98°W

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The named rock units Arthraria antiquata 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.

Arthraria antiquata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Arthraria antiquata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arthraria antiquata, 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

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Arthraria antiquata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthraria antiquata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Arthraria antiquata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1872