Acitheca polymorpha

Acitheca polymorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcithecaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 25 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Acitheca polymorpha 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

2 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

1 formation

Lawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°W

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The named rock units Acitheca polymorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acitheca polymorpha and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Acitheca polymorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acitheca polymorpha, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. 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 Acitheca polymorpha

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Acitheca polymorpha 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 itAcitheca through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1879