Aptychopsis prima
No picture of Aptychopsis prima was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aptychopsis prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AptychopsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Orthocerida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 425 Mya.
5 occurrences of Aptychopsis prima 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aptychopsis prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aptychopsis prima and its relatives
SilurianWhere Aptychopsis prima and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Columenoceras4 sites
- Akrosphaerorthoceras2 sites
- Anaspyroceras2 sites
- Arionoceras canonicum2 sites
- Arionoceras capillosum2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Butovicella migrans2 sites
- Cardiola2 sites
- Graptolithina2 sites
- Maminka2 sites
- Mericoceras2 sites
- Orthoceras submoniliforme2 sites
- Orthocycloceras2 sites
- Phragmoceras2 sites
- Plagiostomoceras2 sites
- Protophragmoceras2 sites
- Pseudocycloceras2 sites
- Slava2 sites
- Spanila2 sites
- Sphaerorthoceras beatum2 sites
- Sphooceras truncatum2 sites
- Arkonoceras1 site
- Cryptocycloceras1 site
- Dualina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aptychopsis prima, 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
3 references- Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from south-western Sardinia2
- Nautiloid assemblages from middle-late Silurian of southwestern Sardinia: a proposal2
- New Silurian nautiloids Phragmoceras Broderip, 1839, and Tubiferoceras Hedström, 1917, from the Prague Basin (Bohemia)1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Aptychopsis prima was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aptychopsis prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aptychopsis prima 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAptychopsis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1872