Argyrotheca michelottina
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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 least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
7 occurrences of Argyrotheca michelottina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Puebla Formation2
- Szoc Limestone Formation2
- Ilundain Marls Formation1
- Ilundain Marl Formation1
- Vic-Igualada Formation1
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The named rock units Argyrotheca michelottina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Argyrotheca michelottina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Argyrotheca michelottina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Terebratula2 sites
- Terebratulina johansenae2 sites
- Actinocyclina1 site
- Asterodiscus1 site
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys biarritzensis1 site
- Cimomia1 site
- Coelopleurus1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Discocyclina pratti1 site
- Filisparsa1 site
- Gigantostrea gigantica1 site
- Guettardiscyphia thiolati1 site
- Harpactocarcinus punctulatus1 site
- Hornera1 site
- Laocoetis patula1 site
- Lima bulloides1 site
- Linthia1 site
- Menippe1 site
- Natica1 site
- Oppisaster sp.1 site
- Pleuroguettardia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Argyrotheca michelottina, 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
4 references- Middle Eocene (Bartonian) brachiopods from the Pamplona Basin, Navarre, South-Western Pyrenees2
- Eocene micromorphic brachiopods from north-western Hungary2
- Lower Eocene (Middle Ilerdian) Brachiopods from the Campo Region, Central Pyrenees, North-Eastern Spain2
- Mesopristis nov. gen. osonensis nov. sp., nuevo género y especie de pez-sierra del Eoceno de Vic, (Catalunya, NE. de España)1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Argyrotheca michelottina 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 Argyrotheca michelottina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Argyrotheca michelottina 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1870)