Archaeospicularia

No picture of Archaeospicularia 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 Archaeospicularia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolycystinaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 122 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508 Mya to 379 Mya.

Cambrian — about 101 of 167 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 56 of 167 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 167 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 167 occurrencesDevonian511–506 Mya — about 4 occurrences506–502 Mya — about 18 occurrences502–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–493 Mya — about 23 occurrences493–488 Mya — about 38 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 31 occurrences484–479 Mya — about 21 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 10 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences504.5 Mya382.31 Mya511 Mya376 Mya

167 occurrences of Archaeospicularia 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

167 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

11 formations

Green Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°WInca — 19.50°S, 138.93°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WBeetle Creek — 21.75°S, 139.98°EValhallfonna — 78.90°N, 18.02°EKallholn Shale — 61.00°N, 14.50°EGogo — 18.43°S, 125.90°EHanson Creek — 39.17°N, 116.39°WTekhten — 51.44°N, 83.15°EMungerebar — 21.45°S, 139.49°E

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The named rock units Archaeospicularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeospicularia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Archaeospicularia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Archaeospicularia, 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

12 references

Each of the 167 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 Archaeospicularia 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 Archaeospicularia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Archaeospicularia 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 itPolycystina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica et al. 2000