Aphrodita indet.
Aphrodita is a genus of marine polychaete worms found in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

MichaelMaggs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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.
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aphrodita indet. 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aphrodita indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aphrodita indet. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Aphrodita indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Acheronauta stimulapis1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Arctinurus1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Ceratiocaris macroura1 site
- Ceratiocaris papilio1 site
- Ceratiocaris pusilla1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Cheloniellida1 site
- Chordata1 site
- Concavicarida1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Conularia manni1 site
- Conularia niagarensis1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Cycloneuralia1 site
- Dalmanitidae1 site
- Dendroidea1 site
- Desmograptus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Distyrax1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Encrinurinae1 site
- Jimaodanus waukeshaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aphrodita indet., 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aphrodita indet.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MichaelMaggs
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aphrodita indet. 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Aphrodita”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.