Australocoelia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptocoeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
81 occurrences of Australocoelia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
81 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
16 formations
- Ponta Grossa Formation11
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group10
- Icla Formation10
- Belen Formation6
- Huamampampa Formation5
- Gamoneda Formation5
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The named rock units Australocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Australocoelia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Australocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Australospirifer51 sites
- Schuchertella29 sites
- Notiochonetes27 sites
- Tentaculites25 sites
- Derbyina24 sites
- Crinoidea22 sites
- Nuculites21 sites
- Orbiculoidea21 sites
- Burmeisteria17 sites
- Lingula16 sites
- Conularia13 sites
- Cryptonella13 sites
- Plectonotus13 sites
- Australostrophia11 sites
- Bivalvia11 sites
- Ostracoda11 sites
- Palaeoneilo11 sites
- Solemya11 sites
- Anchiopella10 sites
- Pennaia10 sites
- Meristelloides9 sites
- Mesoconularia9 sites
- Metacryphaeus9 sites
- Scaphiocoelia9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Australocoelia, 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
12 references- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part B: Spiriferida and Terebratulida35
- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil21
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna12
- Esperiferideos da Bacia do Parana3
- Devonian brachiopods from northern Chile2
- Devonian invertebrates from the Bokkeveld Group below the Karoo succession near Sutherland2
- An earliest Givetian "Lilliput effect" in the Parana Basin, and the collapse of the Malvinokaffric shelly fauna1
- New Devonian fossil localities in Bolivia1
- Brachiopodes et biostratigraphie de la Formation de Los Espejos, Siluro-Devonien de la Precordillere (NW Argentine)1
- Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru1
- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part A: Orthida and Strophomenida1
- Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie1
Each of the 81 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 Australocoelia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Australocoelia 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 itLeptocoeliidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.