Anticalyptraea

Uncredited · 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
- TentaculitaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculita
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculita
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tentaculita
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
8 occurrences of Anticalyptraea on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Eke Beds Formation2
- Kuressaare Formation2
- Hemse Beds Formation1
- Hamra Beds Formation1
- Kaugatuma Formation1
- Taboumakhloûf Formation1
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The named rock units Anticalyptraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anticalyptraea and its relatives
SilurianWhere Anticalyptraea and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Crinoidea5 sites
- Algae4 sites
- Anthozoa4 sites
- Aulopora4 sites
- Cornulites4 sites
- Eospirifer4 sites
- Heliolites4 sites
- Rhynchospirina4 sites
- Rothpletzella4 sites
- Stromatoporoidea4 sites
- Acervularia3 sites
- Calymene3 sites
- Dayia navicula3 sites
- Dinorthis3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
- Fistulipora3 sites
- Labechia conferta3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Levenea canaliculata3 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula3 sites
- Orbiculoidea3 sites
- Ptychopleurella bouchardi3 sites
- Solenopora3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Anticalyptraea, 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
4 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland4
- A new microconchid species from the Silurian of Baltica2
- Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the northern shelf of Gondwana (Mader Basin, Morocco): Diversity, colonization patterns and relation to coeval palaeocommunities1
- The tentaculitid affinities of Anticalyptraea from the Silurian of Baltoscandia1
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 Anticalyptraea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anticalyptraea 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 itTentaculita through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1867