Anataphrus spurius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnataphrusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 900 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
9 occurrences of Anataphrus spurius 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
9 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
4 formations
- Barrel Spring Formation6
- Copenhagen Formation1
- Eureka Formation1
- Copenhagen? Formation1
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The named rock units Anataphrus spurius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anataphrus spurius and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anataphrus spurius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Orthambonites decipiens4 sites
- Lonchodomas3 sites
- Valcourea3 sites
- Ampyx2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Multicostella2 sites
- Remopleurides occidens2 sites
- Valcourea angulata2 sites
- Valcourea plana2 sites
- ? Raymondensis sp.1 site
- <monticuliporid>1 site
- <pachydictyid>1 site
- Anataphrus martinensis1 site
- Belodina ornata1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Corydylodus sp.1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Dichognathus sp.1 site
- Distacodus1 site
- Dorytreta1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Eurychilina1 site
- Hesperorthis dubia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anataphrus spurius, 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
7 references- Stratigraphy of some Paleozoic formations in the Independence quadrangle, Inyo County, California2
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California2
- Distribution of the Middle Ordovician Copenhagen Formation and its trilobites in Nevada1
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada1
- Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States1
- Middle and Upper(?) Ordovician Rocks of Independence Quadrangle, California1
- Notes on certain Ordovician faunas of the Inyo Mountains, California1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Anataphrus spurius 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 Anataphrus spurius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anataphrus spurius 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 itAnataphrus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phleger 1933)