Arthrostylidae

Arthrostylidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdomesinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 209 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 197 of 359 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 83 of 359 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 26 of 359 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 27 of 359 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 26 of 359 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 359 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 5 occurrences468–461 Mya — about 9 occurrences461–453 Mya — about 43 occurrences453–446 Mya — about 111 occurrences446–438 Mya — about 79 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 28 occurrences430–423 Mya — about 5 occurrences423–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–408 Mya — about 4 occurrences408–400 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–393 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences393–385 Mya — about 9 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 8 occurrences378–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–340 Mya — about 9 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 13 occurrences333–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–287 Mya — about 5 occurrences287–280 Mya — about 9 occurrences280–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–265 Mya — about 4 occurrences265–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences469.1 Mya259.857 Mya476 Mya250 Mya

359 occurrences of Arthrostylidae 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

359 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

101 formations

Stony Mountain — 48.43°N, 98.68°WStony Mountain — 48.83°N, 98.90°WStony Mountain — 47.88°N, 100.89°WStony Mountain — 47.42°N, 100.92°WStony Mountain — 46.91°N, 101.75°WStony Mountain — 47.06°N, 102.64°WSodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.22°N, 77.34°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.29°N, 76.74°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WCystoid Limestone — 41.18°N, 1.23°WCystoid Limestone — 41.05°N, 0.92°WCystoid Limestone — 41.04°N, 0.85°WKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WReynales — 43.17°N, 79.03°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WReynales — 43.18°N, 78.75°WFurnaceville — 43.17°N, 77.63°WFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.16°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.06°WFurnaceville — 43.25°N, 77.02°WFurnaceville — 43.29°N, 76.74°WFurnaceville — 43.31°N, 76.58°WStony Mountain — 50.07°N, 97.22°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WGlencar — 54.43°N, 7.85°WGlencar — 54.45°N, 7.83°WHolston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WHolston — 36.33°N, 83.17°WKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EOjlemyr cherts — 57.82°N, 18.90°EMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°EMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°EBoda Limestone — 60.98°N, 15.22°EUllerntangen — 60.00°N, 10.00°ECliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WWegener Halvo — 71.68°N, 22.00°WPin — 32.02°N, 78.05°EProsser — 44.95°N, 93.07°WProsser — 44.50°N, 92.90°W

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The named rock units Arthrostylidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthrostylidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Arthrostylidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 247 sites for Arthrostylidae, and this reads 240 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

88 references

Each of the 359 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. 76 further references are not listed. 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 Arthrostylidae

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Arthrostylidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882