Anthaspidella

Anthaspidella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AnthaspidellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesOrdovician — about 21 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 23 occurrences489–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–481 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences481–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 4 occurrences472–467 Mya — about 6 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya372.15 Mya489 Mya356 Mya

23 occurrences of Anthaspidella 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

23 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

13 formations

San Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.01°S, 68.76°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.12°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.56°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.69°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.35°WHonghuayuan — 30.90°N, 110.83°EAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WSantao — 41.40°N, 123.52°EJohnson Spring — 36.91°N, 118.07°WTable Point — 50.70°N, 57.38°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WRomaine — 50.28°N, 63.83°WWindjana Limestone — 17.40°S, 124.95°EVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.08°ERed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°WFillmore — 39.22°N, 113.40°W

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

Anthaspidella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anthaspidella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Anthaspidella, 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

14 references

Each of the 23 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. 2 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 Anthaspidella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthaspidella 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 itAnthaspidellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Everett 1889