Anthraconauta

Anthraconauta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyalinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya259.857 Mya337 Mya250 Mya

8 occurrences of Anthraconauta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

5 formations

Reynolds Limestone — 39.33°N, 79.85°WChichitsao — 43.78°N, 87.62°EShihezi — 34.72°N, 113.11°ECharleroi — 50.42°N, 3.86°EHance — 36.57°N, 84.18°W

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

Anthraconauta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Anthraconauta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Anthraconauta, 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 8 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 content1

Picture of Anthraconauta

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMyalinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pruvost 1930