Aspidostoma curvatum

No picture of Aspidostoma curvatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aspidostoma curvatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AspidostomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Aspidostoma curvatum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

3 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

Ototara Limestone — 45.07°S, 170.92°EOtotara Limestone — 45.27°S, 170.86°E

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The named rock units Aspidostoma curvatum 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.

Aspidostoma curvatum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aspidostoma curvatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aspidostoma curvatum, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Aspidostoma curvatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAspidostoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uttley 1949