Delaria antiqua

Delaria antiqua

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelariaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.8 Mya266.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Delaria antiqua on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

16 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

5 formations

Road Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WCibolo — 29.86°N, 104.31°WCutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°W

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

Delaria antiqua and its relatives

Permian

Where Delaria antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Delaria antiqua, 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

2 references

Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Delaria antiqua

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Delaria antiqua 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 itDelaria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)