Arisaigia postornata
No picture of Arisaigia postornata 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 Arisaigia postornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArisaigiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Arisaigia postornata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Arisaigia postornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arisaigia postornata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arisaigia postornata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Nuculites2 sites
- Pleurodapis2 sites
- Tentaculites2 sites
- Acastava1 site
- Acastella1 site
- Acastella heberti elsana1 site
- Acastella tiro1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bolliidae1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Cytherellina1 site
- Eoschizodus1 site
- Ganetops ebbae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heldia sp.1 site
- Heteroctenus sp.1 site
- Homeospira gdoumontensis1 site
- Howellella1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Mesodouvillina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Arisaigia postornata, 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- Poland1
- Silurian-Devonian pelecypods and Paleozoic stratigraphy of subsurface rocks in Florida and Georgia and related Silurian pelecypods from Bolivia and Turkey1
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 Arisaigia postornata 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 Arisaigia postornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arisaigia postornata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArisaigia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1918