Adelophthalmoidea

Adelophthalmoidea

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DiploperculataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 94 occurrencesSilurian — about 26 of 94 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 23 of 94 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 41 of 94 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 94 occurrencesPermian446–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 9 occurrences424–419 Mya — about 8 occurrences419–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences413–408 Mya — about 5 occurrences408–402 Mya — about 4 occurrences402–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–380 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences380–374 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences374–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences347–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–336 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences336–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–319 Mya — about 6 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 11 occurrences313–308 Mya — about 8 occurrences308–302 Mya — about 6 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 6 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432.9 Mya290.1 Mya446 Mya280 Mya

94 occurrences of Adelophthalmoidea 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

94 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

60 formations

Shawangunk — 40.98°N, 75.14°WShawangunk — 41.47°N, 74.54°WCharleroi — 50.41°N, 4.45°ECharleroi — 50.47°N, 3.65°ECharleroi — 50.42°N, 3.86°ECharleroi — 51.03°N, 5.37°EWills Creek — 38.95°N, 79.00°WWills Creek — 39.65°N, 78.76°WSundvollen — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESundvollen — 59.92°N, 10.75°EMatarak — 54.12°N, 91.43°EMatarak — 53.33°N, 90.00°EKlerf — 50.25°N, 6.46°EDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.73°WTemeside Shale — 52.37°N, 2.73°WWellington — 36.44°N, 97.17°WWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WRose Hill — 40.66°N, 76.36°W"Clinton" — 42.92°N, 76.73°WMifflintown — 40.96°N, 76.61°WSteinsfjorden — 60.17°N, 10.30°EVernon Shale — 43.08°N, 77.52°WReservoir — 56.00°N, 3.00°WPatrick Burn — 55.65°N, 3.92°WKip Burn — 55.65°N, 3.92°WCowie — 56.95°N, 2.20°WRootsikula — 58.42°N, 22.50°EBiertdag — 51.50°N, 93.00°ECatskill — 41.79°N, 78.20°WLancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WSaarbrucken’schen Kohlengebirges — 49.26°N, 7.00°EKarviná beds — 49.80°N, 18.47°E

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The named rock units Adelophthalmoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adelophthalmoidea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Adelophthalmoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Adelophthalmoidea, 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

54 references

Each of the 94 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. 42 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 Adelophthalmoidea

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adelophthalmoidea 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 itDiploperculata through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tollerton 1989