Alitaria
No picture of Alitaria 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 Alitaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParamarginiferiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 315.2 Mya.
13 occurrences of Alitaria 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
13 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
7 formations
- Stainmore Formation · Yoredale Group4
- Eyam Limestone Formation2
- Bragdon Formation2
- Monsal Dale Limestone Formation2
- Blackstokes Limestone Formation1
- Cracoe Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Alitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alitaria and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Alitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Fenestella5 sites
- Anthraconeilo4 sites
- Buxtonia4 sites
- Latiproductus4 sites
- Posidonia4 sites
- Productus carbonarius4 sites
- Rugosochonetes4 sites
- Schizodus4 sites
- Edmondia sulcata3 sites
- Edmondia unioniformis3 sites
- Krotovia3 sites
- Leptagonia3 sites
- Liralingua wilsoni3 sites
- Nuculopsis3 sites
- Palaeolima simplex3 sites
- Parallelodon3 sites
- Penniretepora3 sites
- Sanguinolites3 sites
- Streblopteria3 sites
- Tornquistia3 sites
- Actinopteria2 sites
- Antiquatonia costata2 sites
- Aulophyllum2 sites
- Blastozoa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Alitaria, 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
7 references- The Serpukhovian and Bashkirian (Carboniferous, Namurian and basal Westphalian) faunas of northern England4
- Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK2
- The origin and significance of the distribution of shelly macrofauna in Late Dinantian carbonate mud mounds of Derbyshire2
- Carboniferous Brachiopods from Northern California2
- Microbialite-sponge-bryozoan-coral framestones in Lower Carboniferous (Late Visean) buildups of northern England (UK)1
- The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland1
- Carboniferous nappe structures in north-eastern Palencia (Spain)1
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 content0
No picture of Alitaria 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 Alitaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alitaria 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 itParamarginiferini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1967