Aulacothyris pala

Aulacothyris pala

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulacothyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya161 Mya

18 occurrences of Aulacothyris pala on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

18 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

Villány — 45.87°N, 18.45°E

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The named rock units Aulacothyris pala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulacothyris pala and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Aulacothyris pala and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Aulacothyris pala, 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

5 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Aulacothyris pala

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itAulacothyris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buch 1833)