Acutichiton pyrmidalus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcutichitonPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 313.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acutichiton pyrmidalus 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Lazy Bend Formation1
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group1
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The named rock units Acutichiton pyrmidalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acutichiton pyrmidalus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Acutichiton pyrmidalus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Arcochiton raymondi2 sites
- Helminthochiton simplex2 sites
- Pterochiton spatulatus2 sites
- Archaeolithophyllum1 site
- Baiosoma pala1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camptochiton1 site
- Coryssochiton1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Ditomopyge scitula1 site
- Donaldina robusta1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Gamizyga morningstarae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glaphurochiton carbonarius1 site
- Hadropipetta ancora1 site
- Hyphantozyga knighti1 site
- Levizygopleura inornata1 site
- Pedanochiton1 site
- Pileochiton1 site
- Plocezyga conica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acutichiton pyrmidalus, 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- Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Texas1
- Middle Pennsylvanian (Allegheny Group) Polyplacophora from Ohio1
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 Acutichiton pyrmidalus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acutichiton pyrmidalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itAcutichiton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoare et al. 1972