Acanthoplecta

Searched as Acanthoplecta mesoloba. The Paleobiology Database treats Acanthoplecta as the accepted name.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LevitusiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339.9 Mya335.9 Mya354.2 Mya329.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Acanthoplecta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 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

4 formations

Feltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WCracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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The named rock units Acanthoplecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Acanthoplecta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Acanthoplecta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Acanthoplecta, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 Acanthoplecta 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 Acanthoplecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acanthoplecta 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itLevitusini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.