Allosacus sp.
No picture of Allosacus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Allosacus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Allosacus sp. on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Allosacus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allosacus sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Allosacus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Annelida1 site
- Archaeoscyphia minganensis1 site
- Archaeoscyphia pulchra1 site
- Archaeoscyphia tenuis1 site
- Aulocopium1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calycocoelia1 site
- Eoscheiella concava1 site
- Hudsonospongia cyclostoma1 site
- Hudsonospongia irregularis1 site
- Hudsonospongia porosa1 site
- Pelmatozoa1 site
- Protachilleum kayseri1 site
- Psarodictyum1 site
- Rhopalocoelia1 site
- Rugospongia viejoensis1 site
- Trepostomata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Allosacus sp., 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 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Allosacus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Allosacus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Allosacus sp. 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 itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.