Auriptygma

Auriptygma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeekospiridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, carnivorePBDB, for Meekospiridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Meekospiridae

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–325 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430.6 Mya259.857 Mya436 Mya251 Mya

9 occurrences of Auriptygma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

9 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

7 formations

Lochkov — 50.03°N, 14.40°ELochkov — 50.00°N, 14.34°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.42°ERedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EPraha — 50.03°N, 14.38°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 72.17°ESlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°E

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The named rock units Auriptygma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Auriptygma and its relatives

Silurian

Where Auriptygma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

393 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Auriptygma, 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

9 references

Each of the 9 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 Auriptygma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Auriptygma 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 itMeekospiridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1903)