Alveolites

Alveolites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlveolitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 563 occurrencesSilurian — about 55 of 563 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 498 of 563 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 563 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 563 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 563 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 13 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 16 occurrences427–421 Mya — about 21 occurrences421–414 Mya — about 9 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 16 occurrences408–401 Mya — about 14 occurrences401–394 Mya — about 15 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 80 occurrences388–381 Mya — about 212 occurrences381–375 Mya — about 103 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 45 occurrences368–362 Mya — about 4 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences336–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya447 Mya250 Mya

563 occurrences of Alveolites 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

563 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

165 formations

Kowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.67°EKowala — 50.93°N, 20.53°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°EKowala — 50.75°N, 20.78°EKowala — 50.88°N, 20.57°ESadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°EPortilla — 42.85°N, 1.84°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°WPortilla — 42.88°N, 5.12°EPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.22°EPortilla — 41.05°N, 3.33°WPortilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.10°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.85°WPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WCombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EFreilingen — 50.52°N, 6.55°EFreilingen — 50.42°N, 6.82°EFreilingen — 50.32°N, 6.68°EFreilingen — 50.37°N, 6.61°EFreilingen — 51.07°N, 7.37°EPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 18.22°S, 126.13°EPillara — 17.62°S, 124.98°EHagen-Balve — 51.40°N, 7.81°EHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.87°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.90°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.92°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WKürten — 50.50°N, 6.53°EKürten — 50.53°N, 6.58°EAisemont — 50.58°N, 5.65°EAisemont — 50.57°N, 5.33°ESanta Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WIhmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.73°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°EDewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EDewal — 33.73°N, 68.08°EBadragha — 34.37°N, 68.33°EBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.38°EBadragha — 34.23°N, 68.00°ETorringen — 51.02°N, 7.22°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EZechstein — 50.90°N, 12.05°EZechstein — 50.90°N, 12.04°EZechstein — 50.72°N, 11.76°ERead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.73°N, 94.94°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°E

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The named rock units Alveolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 141 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveolites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Alveolites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 273 sites for Alveolites, and this reads 240 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

146 references

Each of the 563 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. 134 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Alveolites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAlveolitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801