Arabellites

Arabellites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EunicemorphaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eunicemorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 17 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferous456–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 2 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 4 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences451 Mya358.86 Mya456 Mya350 Mya

17 occurrences of Arabellites on record. 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

17 occurrences

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

6 formations

New Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WNew Albany Shale — 38.50°N, 85.59°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLexington — 38.17°N, 84.83°WCedar Valley — 41.67°N, 91.53°WLoka — 58.57°N, 15.07°E

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The named rock units Arabellites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Arabellites, 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

6 references

Each of the 17 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 Arabellites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Arabellites 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.

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What may have been alongside itEunicemorpha through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1879