Arthrophycus

No picture of Arthrophycus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthrophycus 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 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 26 occurrencesSilurian — about 24 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 26 occurrences446–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 14 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440.5 Mya303.7 Mya446 Mya296 Mya

26 occurrences of Arthrophycus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

26 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

10 formations

Thorold — 43.18°N, 78.72°WThorold — 43.17°N, 77.63°WThorold — 43.21°N, 77.52°WThorold — 43.26°N, 77.16°WThorold — 43.26°N, 77.06°WThorold — 43.25°N, 77.02°WThorold — 43.29°N, 76.78°WThorold — 43.30°N, 76.68°WThorold — 43.31°N, 76.58°WGrimsby — 43.29°N, 76.78°WGrimsby — 43.30°N, 76.68°WGrimsby — 43.31°N, 76.58°WGrimsby — 43.31°N, 76.42°WShawangunk — 40.98°N, 75.14°WShawangunk — 41.47°N, 74.54°WOneida — 43.31°N, 76.42°WOneida — 43.15°N, 75.57°WAcacus Sandstone — 24.97°N, 10.18°ETakche — 32.37°N, 77.62°EManchap — 31.60°N, 78.75°EElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WBear Creek — 43.30°N, 76.68°WGrand River — 42.52°N, 84.66°W

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The named rock units Arthrophycus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthrophycus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Arthrophycus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Arthrophycus, 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

6 references

Each of the 26 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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3D model

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No picture of Arthrophycus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arthrophycus 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.

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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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852