Acanthoclymenia

Acanthoclymenia is genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Acanthoclymeniidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in middle and late Devonian. Its fossils were found in Europe, Asia, north Africa, North America and Australia. Species of this genus had discoidal shells with flattened venter.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthoclymeniinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

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30 occurrences of Acanthoclymenia 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

30 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

9 formations

Gogo — 18.50°S, 126.00°EGenundewa — 42.78°N, 77.88°WGenundewa — 42.77°N, 77.82°WGenundewa — 42.73°N, 77.33°WGenundewa — 42.90°N, 78.13°WGenundewa — 42.57°N, 77.08°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.92°WCashaqua — 42.70°N, 77.87°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.72°WWest River Shale — 42.77°N, 77.88°WWest River Shale — 42.78°N, 77.55°WWest River Shale — 42.57°N, 77.15°WVirgin Hills — 18.50°S, 126.00°ESzydłówek — 51.97°N, 23.67°EPenn Yan — 42.87°N, 78.15°WDomanik — 63.53°N, 53.42°ELyaiol — 63.13°N, 53.81°E

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The named rock units Acanthoclymenia 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.

Acanthoclymenia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acanthoclymenia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Acanthoclymenia, 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

6 references

Each of the 30 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

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No picture of Acanthoclymenia 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 Acanthoclymenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acanthoclymenia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1900