Antiquatonia portlockianus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AntiquatoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
37 occurrences of Antiquatonia portlockianus 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
37 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
11 formations
- Cherokee Shale Formation16
- Fort Scott Limestone Formation5
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group4
- Graham Formation3
- Illipah Formation2
- Graford Formation1
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The named rock units Antiquatonia portlockianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Antiquatonia portlockianus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Antiquatonia portlockianus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Composita subtilita26 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari18 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus13 sites
- Derbyia crassa11 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina11 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis10 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa7 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis7 sites
- Cleiothyridina orbicularis6 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer6 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa5 sites
- Lophophyllidium profundum5 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens5 sites
- Rhombopora lepidodendroides5 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis4 sites
- Palaeolima retifera4 sites
- Astartella concentrica3 sites
- Chonetes mesoloba3 sites
- Composita ovata3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Echinoconchus3 sites
- Fenestella3 sites
- Hustedia mormoni3 sites
- Linoproductus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Antiquatonia portlockianus, 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- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas21
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri5
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas5
- Geology of the Northern Needle Range Millard County, Utah3
- Brachiopods of the suborder Strophomenidina from the Shumway Cyclothem, Mattoon Formation, Virgilian of Illinois.1
- A Middle Pennsylvanian fauna from the Naco Formation near Kohl Ranch, Central Arizona1
- Some paleontological and stratigraphical aspects of the Upper Carboniferous Sama Formation (Asturias, Spain)1
Each of the 37 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Antiquatonia portlockianus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Antiquatonia portlockianus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Norwood and Pratten 1855)