Aulacera

No picture of Aulacera 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 Aulacera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulaceratidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 425 Mya.

Ordovician — about 72 of 79 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 79 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 12 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 12 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 11 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 8 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449.6 Mya426.7 Mya458.9 Mya424.3 Mya

79 occurrences of Aulacera 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

79 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

20 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.31°N, 61.83°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.62°N, 62.67°WVaureal — 49.40°N, 62.19°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 64.52°WVaureal — 49.40°N, 62.31°WDrakes — 37.72°N, 85.52°WDrakes — 38.07°N, 85.53°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WChasm Creek — 58.25°N, 94.57°WChasm Creek — 56.63°N, 93.63°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WStony Mountain — 52.00°N, 97.00°WRichmond — 45.75°N, 86.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSurprise Creek — 58.00°N, 95.00°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WBig Hill — 45.83°N, 86.95°WStonewall — 52.00°N, 97.00°WAkpatok — 60.34°N, 67.97°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°E

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The named rock units Aulacera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulacera and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aulacera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

454 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Aulacera, 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

17 references

Each of the 79 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Aulacera 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 Aulacera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aulacera 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 itAulaceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plummer 1843