Acanthoscapha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeecherellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 212 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 47 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 47 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 47 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 23 of 47 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 47 occurrences463–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–416 Mya — about 6 occurrences416–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences299–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–245 Mya — about 16 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 7 occurrences237–229 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences449.5 Mya237 Mya463 Mya229 Mya

47 occurrences of Acanthoscapha on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

47 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

17 formations

Marelb — 45.07°N, 28.78°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°EUzum Bair — 45.07°N, 28.78°ESilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WFelsõörs — 47.01°N, 17.93°EBateaobao — 41.25°N, 109.75°ERyozensan Limestone — 35.26°N, 136.36°ELas Aguaditas — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EBelovo Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EToshem — 61.30°N, 60.13°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°ENagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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The named rock units Acanthoscapha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthoscapha and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Acanthoscapha and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Acanthoscapha, 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

16 references

Each of the 47 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. 4 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Acanthoscapha 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 itBeecherellidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Bassler 1923