Acidiphorus

Acidiphorus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
BathyuridaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 457.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 455 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 105 occurrencesOrdovician — about 105 of 105 occurrencesOrdovician490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 9 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 11 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 11 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 11 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 7 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya457.2 Mya489.6 Mya454.3 Mya

105 occurrences of Acidiphorus 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

105 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

26 formations

Outram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WWah Wah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WFort Cassin — 44.47°N, 73.25°WFort Cassin — 43.60°N, 73.33°WFort Cassin — 44.23°N, 73.33°WTable Point — 50.70°N, 57.41°WTable Point — 50.36°N, 57.54°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 36.39°N, 116.61°WAntelope Valley — 36.76°N, 115.76°WJoins — 34.43°N, 97.35°WSmithville — 37.33°N, 89.90°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.29°N, 89.83°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.82°WGarden City — 41.97°N, 111.47°WGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WGarden City — 41.52°N, 111.94°WGarden City — 40.89°N, 112.82°WGarden City — 41.74°N, 111.83°WWahwah — 39.18°N, 113.50°WWahwah — 40.87°N, 113.93°WFillmore — 39.84°N, 113.46°WFillmore — 38.84°N, 113.46°WNinemile — 36.65°N, 116.17°WNinemile — 37.34°N, 115.38°WNinemile — 37.30°N, 115.80°WBroken Skull — 64.67°N, 132.00°WBroken Skull — 62.25°N, 126.50°WShingle Limestone — 39.62°N, 115.07°WBeauharnois — 45.29°N, 74.13°WFillmore Limestone — 38.84°N, 113.46°WWoodward D — 39.48°N, 114.92°WWahwah Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WWahwah Limestone — 38.84°N, 113.46°WValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°ESkoki — 52.88°N, 118.08°WShingle Pass — 38.20°N, 114.90°WDounans Limestone — 56.00°N, 4.00°WRomaine — 50.20°N, 63.92°WOxford — 44.93°N, 75.60°W

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The named rock units Acidiphorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acidiphorus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Acidiphorus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Acidiphorus, 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

30 references

Each of the 105 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. 18 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 Acidiphorus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Raymond 1925