Acanthochaetetes

Acanthochaetetes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthochaetetidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hadromerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hadromerida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hadromerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hadromerida

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 14 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences149.2 Mya129 ka158 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Acanthochaetetes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

14 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

Altamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EKhalsi — 34.30°N, 76.92°ETamasopo — 23.08°N, 100.67°WSan Isidro — 17.45°N, 97.08°W

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The named rock units Acanthochaetetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthochaetetes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Acanthochaetetes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Acanthochaetetes, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 Acanthochaetetes

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No 3D scan of Acanthochaetetes 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 itAcanthochaetetidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1970