Apousiella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MucrospiriferinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 379 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 346.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Apousiella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
9 occurrences- Devonian89%
- Carboniferous11%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Apousiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apousiella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Apousiella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Athyris6 sites
- Cyrtospirifer5 sites
- Douvillina5 sites
- Schizophoria striatula5 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Cyrtina4 sites
- Cyrtospirifer verneuili4 sites
- Productella subaculeata4 sites
- Adolfia3 sites
- Aulopora3 sites
- Cranaena3 sites
- Desquamatia3 sites
- Disphyllum3 sites
- Eoschuchertella3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Longispina3 sites
- Plexituba3 sites
- Ripidiorhynchus3 sites
- Spinatrypa3 sites
- Steinhagella3 sites
- Uchtospirifer3 sites
- Atrypid sp.2 sites
- Aulacella2 sites
- Aulocystis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Apousiella, 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- Brachiopodes du Devonien de Ferques (Boulonnais-France)4
- Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian of Ferques (Boulonnais, France). Relations to palaeoenvironments and global eustatic curves.3
- Echinoderm faunas of the Hongguleleng Formation, Late Devonian (Famennian), Xinjiang-Uyger Autonomous Region, People''s Republic of China1
- Devonian and Lower Carboniferous brachiopods and bivalves from western Libya1
Each of the 9 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 Apousiella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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 itMucrospiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.