Alveolites tenuissimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlveolitesPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
11 occurrences of Alveolites tenuissimus 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
11 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Alveolites tenuissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alveolites tenuissimus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Alveolites tenuissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Aulocystis2 sites
- Macgeea2 sites
- Phillipsastrea2 sites
- Thamnophyllum2 sites
- Actinostroma expansum1 site
- Alveolites edwardsi frasnianus1 site
- Alveolites taenioformis minor1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Aristophyllum1 site
- Astyloscyphia irregularia1 site
- Astyloscyphia turbinata1 site
- Astylotuba modica1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Bainbridgia1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Buregia1 site
- Calceola sandalina1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alveolites tenuissimus, 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- Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition4
- Late Frasnian phillipsastreid biostromes in Belgium3
- Tabulate corals from the Givetian and Frasnian of the Holy Cross Mountains and Silesian Upland3
- Steep-sided carbonate mud mounds in the Middle Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Alveolites tenuissimus 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 Alveolites tenuissimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alveolites tenuissimus 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 itAlveolites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lecompte 1933