Acanthophyllum

Acanthophyllum

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtenophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 165 occurrencesDevonian — about 158 of 165 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 165 occurrencesPermian — about 7 of 165 occurrencesPermian426–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–415 Mya — about 6 occurrences415–410 Mya — about 21 occurrences410–404 Mya — about 12 occurrences404–399 Mya — about 12 occurrences399–393 Mya — about 9 occurrences393–388 Mya — about 18 occurrences388–383 Mya — about 68 occurrences383–377 Mya — about 10 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 4 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences413.02 Mya274.4 Mya426 Mya264 Mya

165 occurrences of Acanthophyllum 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

165 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

71 formations

Portilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.85°WPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.30°WHanonet — 50.05°N, 4.48°EBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°EBurdekin — 19.90°S, 146.23°EBurdekin — 19.47°S, 146.08°EBurdekin — 19.47°S, 145.98°ETorquay Limestone — 50.45°N, 3.50°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EMassenkalk — 51.12°N, 7.90°EMassenkalk — 51.15°N, 7.95°EMassenkalk — 51.38°N, 7.85°EMassenkalk — 51.00°N, 7.17°EVizhay — 61.30°N, 60.13°EVizhay — 61.27°N, 60.17°EVizhay — 59.57°N, 59.98°EGarra — 33.00°S, 149.00°ESalairka Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EShield Creek — 19.00°S, 145.00°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WKulamat — 53.00°N, 57.18°EKulamat — 52.97°N, 57.02°ETyutyulen — 52.97°N, 57.02°ETyutyulen — 52.75°N, 56.97°EToshem — 61.30°N, 60.13°EToshem — 61.27°N, 60.17°EToshem — 59.57°N, 59.98°EMcCann Hill — 65.08°N, 141.02°WMcCann Hill — 64.92°N, 141.00°WMcCann Hill — 65.27°N, 141.65°WCabrieroceras Limestone — 25.22°N, 11.57°WDonggangling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°EUnterhonsel — 51.40°N, 7.81°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.50°S, 148.18°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.12°S, 147.83°ETaravale — 37.42°S, 148.20°EBroken River — 19.50°S, 145.00°ESinelnikov — 72.00°N, 52.00°ETurkparidinskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.88°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°E

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The named rock units Acanthophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acanthophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Acanthophyllum, 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

55 references

Each of the 165 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. 43 further references are not listed. 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 Acanthophyllum

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acanthophyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873