Archaeopetasus
No picture of Archaeopetasus 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 Archaeopetasus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblematicaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 512.1 Mya.
19 occurrences of Archaeopetasus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
19 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
- Parara Formation13
- Parara Limestone Formation4
- Ajax Limestone Formation1
- Zhujianqing Formation · Meishucunian Group1
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The named rock units Archaeopetasus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeopetasus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Archaeopetasus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Chancelloria11 sites
- Sinosachites10 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata9 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari9 sites
- Archiasterella8 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis8 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni8 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi8 sites
- Australohalkieria parva7 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum7 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata7 sites
- Triplicatella disdoma7 sites
- <Hexact>6 sites
- Anabarella australis6 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles6 sites
- Apistoconcha siphonalis6 sites
- Cupitheca6 sites
- Hyolitha6 sites
- Hyolithellus filiformis6 sites
- Microcornus eximius6 sites
- Microcornus petilus6 sites
- Parkula bounites6 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora5 sites
- Cambroclavus absonus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Archaeopetasus, 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- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia11
- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia7
- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China1
Each of the 19 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 Archaeopetasus 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 Archaeopetasus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeopetasus 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 itProblematica through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.