Atactotoechus kayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtactotoechusPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Atactotoechus kayi 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Day Point Formation2
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group2
- Valcour Formation1
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The named rock units Atactotoechus kayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atactotoechus kayi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atactotoechus kayi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Champlainopora chazyensis3 sites
- Phylloporina3 sites
- Stictopora fenestrata3 sites
- Chazydictya chazyensis2 sites
- Batostoma chazyensis1 site
- Nicholsonella1 site
- Rostricellula plena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Atactotoechus kayi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Chazyan (Ordovician) leptotrypellid and atactotoechid Bryozoa4
- Morphology and Phylogeny of Early Ectoprocta (Bryozoa)1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Atactotoechus kayi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Atactotoechus kayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atactotoechus kayi 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 itAtactotoechus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1962