Alatiformia

Alatiformia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpinocyrtiidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400 Mya387.4 Mya

13 occurrences of Alatiformia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

13 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

7 formations

Lauch — 50.17°N, 6.43°ELauch — 50.15°N, 6.60°ELauch — 50.33°N, 6.75°ECastellar — 41.13°N, 1.07°WSipai — 24.10°N, 109.98°ELynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WMonforte — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMoyuela — 41.13°N, 1.07°WOued Kibane — 32.67°N, 7.67°W

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The named rock units Alatiformia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alatiformia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Alatiformia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Alatiformia, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 Alatiformia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alatiformia 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 itSpinocyrtiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.