Arthropleura armata

No picture of Arthropleura armata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Arthropleura armata itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arthropleura armata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArthropleuraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 301.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 300.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 22 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferous319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316.9 Mya301.4 Mya319.2 Mya299.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Arthropleura armata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

22 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

Lower Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.28°N, 7.03°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.46°N, 7.91°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.26°N, 7.00°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.34°N, 7.17°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 51.01°N, 7.14°ELuisenthal — 49.32°N, 7.05°EUntere Saarbrücker Schichten — 49.76°N, 7.35°EUpper Saarbrücker Shale — 49.33°N, 7.14°EZwickau — 50.70°N, 12.51°ESan José — 42.88°N, 5.64°WFarrington — 51.30°N, 2.43°WSan Giorgio — 39.29°N, 8.52°E

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The named rock units Arthropleura armata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthropleura armata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Arthropleura armata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Arthropleura armata, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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 Arthropleura armata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Arthropleura armata itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arthropleura armata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Arthropleura armata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itArthropleura through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan 1854