Acanthambonia portranensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthamboniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.9 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
13 occurrences of Acanthambonia portranensis 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
13 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
3 formations
- Jonstorp Formation8
- Tudulinna Formation2
- Portrane Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group1
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The named rock units Acanthambonia portranensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acanthambonia portranensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acanthambonia portranensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Eoconulus semiregularis10 sites
- Rhinotreta laeta10 sites
- Scaphelasma scutula9 sites
- Schizotreta concava9 sites
- Opsiconidion praecursor8 sites
- Rowellella minuta7 sites
- Spondylotreta parva6 sites
- Paterula perfecta5 sites
- Phosphannulus3 sites
- Paterula2 sites
- Schizotreta2 sites
- Acanthocrania1 site
- Allumettoceras1 site
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Amorphognathus duftonus1 site
- Amorphognathus ordovicicus1 site
- Amorphognathus superbus1 site
- Amorphognathus ventilatus1 site
- Aphelognathus1 site
- Bancroftina1 site
- Belodina confluens1 site
- Birksfeldia circumplicata1 site
- Cornuodus1 site
- Dalmanella portranensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Acanthambonia portranensis, 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
3 references- Late Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Estonia10
- Revision of the Morphology and Systematic Position of the Genus Acanthambonia (Brachiopoda, Inarticulata)2
- The fauna of the Portrane Limestone 1. The inarticulate brachiopods1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Acanthambonia portranensis 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 Acanthambonia portranensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthambonia portranensis 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 itAcanthambonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1963