Arthraria

No picture of Arthraria was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthraria firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 5 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician527–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences522–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences521 Mya449.6 Mya527 Mya444 Mya

7 occurrences of Arthraria on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

6 formations

Arnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WGeorgian Bay — 45.74°N, 81.82°WCynthiana — 38.30°N, 84.54°WGrebes Nest Point — 47.64°N, 52.98°WPika — 53.20°N, 119.15°W

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The named rock units Arthraria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthraria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Arthraria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arthraria, 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

5 references

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. 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 Arthraria was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthraria firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Arthraria 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1872