Altaja

No picture of Altaja 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 Altaja, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntelophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurian439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439.1 Mya422.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Altaja 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

10 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

Bateaobao — 42.00°N, 110.00°EAkchalym — 51.25°N, 93.83°EBelaya — 51.63°N, 90.30°EStoktysh — 51.63°N, 90.30°ETaslaysk — 51.63°N, 90.30°EKarakhem — 51.63°N, 90.30°EKhutsin Bulak — 49.67°N, 92.67°E

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

Altaja and its relatives

Silurian

Where Altaja and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Altaja, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Altaja 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 Altaja, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Altaja 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 itEntelophyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zheltonogova 1960