Archicapsa

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SethocapsidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 141 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 36 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 29 of 36 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 36 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 6 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 6 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 8 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184.2 Mya143.1 Mya194 Mya140 Mya

36 occurrences of Archicapsa on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

36 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

1 formation

Ngalau Chert — 0.97°S, 100.47°E

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The named rock units Archicapsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archicapsa and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Archicapsa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Archicapsa, 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

14 references

Each of the 36 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Archicapsa 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 Archicapsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Archicapsa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSethocapsidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1881