Anoptambonitidae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectambonitoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454 Mya452.3 Mya458.7 Mya448.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Anoptambonitidae 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

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

Malongulli — 33.55°S, 148.85°EMalongulli — 34.00°S, 148.00°EMalongulli — 33.54°S, 148.86°EMalongulli — 33.21°S, 148.87°EGoonumbla Volcanics — 33.04°S, 147.93°EGoonumbla Volcanics — 33.13°S, 147.98°EMiaopo — 30.86°N, 111.39°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°E

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

Anoptambonitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anoptambonitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anoptambonitidae, 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

5 references

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 Anoptambonitidae 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 Anoptambonitidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Anoptambonitidae 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 itPlectambonitoidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roomusoks 1963