Aridelocaris ohioensis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AridelocarisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.4 Mya346.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Aridelocaris ohioensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

Cuyahoga — 41.12°N, 81.49°W

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The named rock units Aridelocaris ohioensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aridelocaris ohioensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aridelocaris ohioensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aridelocaris ohioensis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Aridelocaris ohioensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schweitzer and Schram 2025