Arachnophyllum murchisoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArachnophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Arachnophyllum murchisoni 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Arachnophyllum murchisoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arachnophyllum murchisoni and its relatives
SilurianWhere Arachnophyllum murchisoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Bivalvia2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Stromatopora2 sites
- Acaste1 site
- Acervularia1 site
- Aetholicotoxotis1 site
- Amphistrophia1 site
- Amphitoxotis1 site
- Amplexopora1 site
- Ananaspis1 site
- Antirhynchonella1 site
- Archaeofenestella1 site
- Asperopora1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypida1 site
- Aulacopora sp.1 site
- Batostomella1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Bucanopsis latevittatus1 site
- Calostylis1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Ceramopora1 site
- Charitoxotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Arachnophyllum murchisoni, 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- Significance of a halysitid-heliolitid mud-facies autobiostrome from the Middle Silurian of Gotland, Sweden1
- Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Arachnophyllum murchisoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Arachnophyllum murchisoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arachnophyllum murchisoni 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 itArachnophyllum through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Edwards and Haime 1851)