Acanthotoechia
No picture of Acanthotoechia 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 Acanthotoechia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolytoechiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acanthotoechia 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Acanthotoechia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthotoechia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Acanthotoechia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Illaenus2 sites
- Opipeuter2 sites
- Punctolira2 sites
- Tritoechia2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
- Acanthoglypha affinis1 site
- Agerina1 site
- Allosaccus1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Ampyx toxotis1 site
- Annamitella1 site
- Apheoorthis1 site
- Arancibia sp.1 site
- Archaeorthis1 site
- Archaeorthis globosa1 site
- Archaeoscyphia1 site
- Benedettia1 site
- Benthamaspis diminutiva1 site
- Borua modesta1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Catellicephalidae <gen. nov.>1 site
- Celmus michaelmus1 site
- Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acanthotoechia, 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
2 references- Benthic assemblages in the northwestern of Gondwana: A test of the Ordovician evolutionary radiation model1
- Lower Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Tourmakeady Limestone, Co. Mayo, Ireland1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acanthotoechia 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 Acanthotoechia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthotoechia 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 itPolytoechiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.