Attenborolimulus superspinosus

No picture of Attenborolimulus superspinosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Attenborolimulus superspinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AttenborolimulusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Xiphosurida

Time the record covers

At most 1.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 247 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249.1 Mya246.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Attenborolimulus superspinosus on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

Petropavlovka — 52.03°N, 55.63°E

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

Attenborolimulus superspinosus and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Attenborolimulus superspinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Attenborolimulus superspinosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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 Attenborolimulus superspinosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Attenborolimulus superspinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Attenborolimulus superspinosus 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 itAttenborolimulus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bicknell and Shcherbakov 2021