Aulacera undulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulaceraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Aulacera undulata 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
- Ellis Bay Formation · Jolliet Group5
- Vaureal Formation4
- Chasm Creek Formation · Churchill River Group2
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group1
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The named rock units Aulacera undulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aulacera undulata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aulacera undulata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Brachytomaria papillosa4 sites
- Calapoecia4 sites
- Dinobolus4 sites
- Hibbertia4 sites
- Hindella4 sites
- Hormotoma gigantea4 sites
- Paleofavosites4 sites
- Ptychopleurella lamellosa4 sites
- Subulites ellisensis4 sites
- Lobocorallium3 sites
- Lyopora3 sites
- Schuchertoceras3 sites
- Bighornia2 sites
- Calapoecia coxi2 sites
- Manipora2 sites
- Palaeofavosites alveolaris2 sites
- Protrochiscolithus2 sites
- Trochonema coxi2 sites
- Antiplectoceras1 site
- Astakocrinus teren1 site
- Aulacera cylindrica1 site
- Aulacera nodulifera1 site
- Aulacera nodulosa1 site
- Aulacera radiata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Aulacera undulata, 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
4 references- Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada4
- Anticosti Island, Québec4
- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland3
- Anticosti Locality Data Abbreviated1
Each of the 12 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 Aulacera undulata 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 Aulacera undulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulacera undulata 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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What may have been alongside itAulacera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1857