Aequalicosta shumardi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AequalicostaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Aequalicosta shumardi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
17 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Aequalicosta shumardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aequalicosta shumardi and its relatives
PermianWhere Aequalicosta shumardi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
267 taxa- Anteridocus swallovianus13 sites
- Paraspiriferina billingsi13 sites
- Derbyia10 sites
- Tautosia shumardiana10 sites
- Thamnosia capitanensis10 sites
- Composita affinis9 sites
- Dielasma9 sites
- Dielasma sulcatum9 sites
- Heterelasma shumardianum9 sites
- Scapharina levis9 sites
- Strigirhynchia indentata9 sites
- Composita emarginata8 sites
- Hustedia rupinata8 sites
- Tautosia elegans8 sites
- Timorina ovata8 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium8 sites
- Arionthia lamaria7 sites
- Heteralosia magnispina7 sites
- Liosotella popei7 sites
- Plectelasma guadalupense7 sites
- Ptilotorhynchus delicatum7 sites
- Thedusia trigonalis7 sites
- Anisopyge perannulata6 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Aequalicosta shumardi, 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 referencesEach of the 17 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aequalicosta shumardi 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 Aequalicosta shumardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aequalicosta shumardi 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 itAequalicosta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooper and Grant 1976)