Araeonema microspirulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraeonemaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Araeonema
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Araeonema
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Araeonema
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Araeonema
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Araeonema
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Araeonema microspirulata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Araeonema microspirulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araeonema microspirulata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Araeonema microspirulata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Austroneilsonia gundyensis5 sites
- Austronema elegantissima5 sites
- Donaldina filosa5 sites
- Hesperiella robertsi5 sites
- Soleniscus callosus5 sites
- Borestus costatus4 sites
- Chlorozyga decussata4 sites
- Eucochlis australis4 sites
- Glabrocingulum obesum4 sites
- Hypergonia elongata4 sites
- Microdoma angulata4 sites
- Sinuitina portulacoides4 sites
- Stegocoelia nodosa4 sites
- Stenoloron umbilicata4 sites
- Euphemites labrosa3 sites
- Kimina minor3 sites
- Naticopsis osbornei3 sites
- Plagioglypta numerosa3 sites
- Pseudoaclisina turgida3 sites
- Retispira culleni3 sites
- Cyclozyga sinusigera2 sites
- Eucochlis umbiliparva2 sites
- Hypergonia tenuis2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura obesa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Araeonema microspirulata, 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
2 references- Carboniferous Mollusca from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia3
- Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales3
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Araeonema microspirulata 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 Araeonema microspirulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araeonema microspirulata 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 itAraeonema through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yoo 1994