Aulocopium aurantium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulocopiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 9.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aulocopium aurantium 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aulocopium aurantium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aulocopium aurantium and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aulocopium aurantium and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Anomaloides reticulatus2 sites
- Astylostroma micra2 sites
- Gleesonia porosa2 sites
- Perissocoelia habra2 sites
- Pseudolancicula exigua2 sites
- Silicunculus bengtsoni2 sites
- Belubulaia packhami1 site
- Chelispongia prima1 site
- Hindia sphaeroidalis1 site
- Hudsonospongia cyclostoma1 site
- Kometia cruciformis1 site
- Lewinia cavernosa1 site
- Malongullospongia delicatula1 site
- Nibiconia adnata1 site
- Palmatohindia multipora1 site
- Tiddalickia quadrata1 site
- Vandonia clathrata1 site
- Walliospongia gracilis1 site
- Warrigalia elliptica1 site
- Wongaspongia major1 site
- Wongaspongia minor1 site
- Yarrowigahia brassicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aulocopium aurantium, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aulocopium aurantium 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 Aulocopium aurantium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulocopium aurantium 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 itAulocopium through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oswald 1847