Atactotoechus

Atactotoechus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtactotoechidaePBDB
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 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 14 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 23 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–407 Mya — about 1 occurrence407–403 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences403–399 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 5 occurrences380–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457.3 Mya368.5 Mya474 Mya357 Mya

23 occurrences of Atactotoechus 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

23 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

13 formations

Khandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°EDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.46°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.46°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EPraha — 49.90°N, 14.07°EKoneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°EEsla — 42.88°N, 5.13°WJurginskaya — 51.42°N, 92.70°ELudlowville — 42.79°N, 78.84°WValcour — 44.87°N, 73.46°WTaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°EKoněprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°E

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The named rock units Atactotoechus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Atactotoechus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Atactotoechus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Atactotoechus, 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

15 references

Each of the 23 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. 3 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 Atactotoechus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Atactotoechus 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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What may have been alongside itAtactotoechidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1939