Alveolitidae

Alveolitidae

Zapalski MK, Berkowski B, Wrzołek T (2016) Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from t… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlveolitinaPBDB
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 179 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 1089 occurrencesSilurian — about 179 of 1089 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 900 of 1089 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 1089 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 1089 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1089 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 13 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 45 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 66 occurrences427–421 Mya — about 50 occurrences421–414 Mya — about 15 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 37 occurrences408–401 Mya — about 29 occurrences401–394 Mya — about 33 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 131 occurrences388–381 Mya — about 427 occurrences381–375 Mya — about 150 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 74 occurrences368–362 Mya — about 6 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 occurrences439.4 Mya259.857 Mya447 Mya250 Mya

1,089 occurrences of Alveolitidae 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

1,089 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

243 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°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°WSadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°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°EBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EHagen-Balve — 51.40°N, 7.81°EHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.87°EDewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EDewal — 33.87°N, 67.93°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EDewal — 33.73°N, 68.08°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°EQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°ESanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.42°WSanta Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°ECombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°ETorringen — 51.02°N, 7.22°ESin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°ESin Ghar — 34.32°N, 68.35°ESin Ghar — 34.22°N, 68.25°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EKürten — 50.50°N, 6.53°EKürten — 50.53°N, 6.58°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.17°EHa Lang — 22.68°N, 106.67°EHa Lang — 22.23°N, 106.18°EQuy Dat — 17.90°N, 105.82°EPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 18.22°S, 126.13°EPillara — 17.62°S, 124.98°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°ESafonovski — 54.37°N, 86.18°ESafonovski — 56.13°N, 85.97°E

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The named rock units Alveolitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 219 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 136 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveolitidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Alveolitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 410 sites for Alveolitidae, 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

191 references

Each of the 1,089 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. 179 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 content1

Picture of Alveolitidae

Credit
Zapalski MK, Berkowski B, Wrzołek T (2016) Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from t…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alveolitidae 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 itAlveolitina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1872