Argyrotheca beecheri
No picture of Argyrotheca beecheri 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 Argyrotheca beecheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgyrothecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Argyrotheca beecheri on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group2
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The named rock units Argyrotheca beecheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Argyrotheca beecheri and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Argyrotheca beecheri and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- <Callianassid>1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Amtaaguar crassus1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Arca1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Bathytormus alaeformis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calappilia1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Calyptraphorus jacksoni1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Caricella1 site
- Cavoscala annulata1 site
- Cheilophis huerfanoensis1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cidaris splendens1 site
- Cistella1 site
- Cliona1 site
- Crassatella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Argyrotheca beecheri, 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- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States1
Each of the 2 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 Argyrotheca beecheri 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 Argyrotheca beecheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Argyrotheca beecheri 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 itArgyrotheca through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1895)