Arthrophyllum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LamellorthoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lituitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lituitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya.
15 occurrences of Arthrophyllum 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
15 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Arthrophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arthrophyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arthrophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Temperoceras migrans8 sites
- Subdoloceras atrouzense5 sites
- Cancellspyroceras loricatum4 sites
- Geidoloceras ouaoufilalense4 sites
- Spyroceras patronus4 sites
- Subdoloceras engeseri4 sites
- Temperoceras aequinudum4 sites
- Australonema3 sites
- Eohormotomina restisevoluta3 sites
- Machaeracanthus3 sites
- Mimagoniatites fecundus3 sites
- Oriomphalus multiornatus3 sites
- Orthocycloceras tafilaltense3 sites
- Palaeozygopleura3 sites
- Panenka3 sites
- Pseudendoplectoceras3 sites
- Spyroceras cyrtopatronus3 sites
- Suloceras longipulchrum3 sites
- Tafilaltoceras adgoi3 sites
- Tibichoanoceras tibichoanum3 sites
- Ataviaconcha wendti2 sites
- Cingulodermis2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Deiroceras hollardi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Arthrophyllum, 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- Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco)8
- Oases of biodiversity: Early Devonian palaeoecology at Hamar Laghdad, Morocco2
- Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids2
- The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate: Marine life in the Devonian2
- Early and Middle Devonian cephalopods from Hamar Laghdad (Tafilalt, Morocco) and remarks on epicoles and cameral deposits1
Each of the 15 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 Arthrophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Arthrophyllum 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 itLamellorthoceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beyrich 1850