Ainiktozoon loganense

Ainiktozoon loganense, is a fossil arthropod from the Silurian of Scotland. It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow. Originally described as an early chordate, recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean.

Ainiktozoon loganense

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AiniktozoonPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Thylacocephala
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Thylacocephala

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Ainiktozoon loganense on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1 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

Patrick Burn — 55.61°N, 3.99°W

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The named rock units Ainiktozoon loganense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ainiktozoon loganense and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ainiktozoon loganense and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ainiktozoon loganense, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Ainiktozoon loganense

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

No 3D scan of Ainiktozoon loganense 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAiniktozoon through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scourfield 1937