Acanthochitina
No picture of Acanthochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Acanthochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizopodeaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 400 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.9 Mya and 449.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acanthochitina 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Acanthochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthochitina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acanthochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Atraktoprion1 site
- Belonechitina1 site
- Calpichitina1 site
- Conochitina1 site
- Cyathochitina1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Foliomena1 site
- Glyptorthis plana1 site
- Hulterstadia cor1 site
- Kinnella1 site
- Kozlowskiprion1 site
- Lagenochitina1 site
- Laticrura rostrata1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Mochtyella cristata1 site
- Nicolella1 site
- Oenonites1 site
- Ogmoplecia plicata1 site
- Pistoprion1 site
- Platystrophia1 site
- Protarabellites1 site
- Pteropelta1 site
- Rhabdochitina1 site
- Rhytiprion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthochitina, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Acanthochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Acanthochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Acanthochitina 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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.