Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulacopariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 475.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) 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
14 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Menoparia genalunata5 sites
- Hintzeia firmimarginis3 sites
- Hormotoma3 sites
- Psalikilus spinosum3 sites
- Ptyocephalus3 sites
- Apatokephalus2 sites
- Euconia umbilicata2 sites
- Hintzeia celsaora2 sites
- Hystricurus2 sites
- Licnocephala2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Nanorthis putilla2 sites
- Peltabellia2 sites
- Plethospira2 sites
- Presbynileus2 sites
- Psalikilus paraspinosum2 sites
- Reubenella rex2 sites
- Teiichispira affinis2 sites
- Asaphellus1 site
- Athenacrinus broweri1 site
- Bryograptus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Endoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina), 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- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea11
- Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota3
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) 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 Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) 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 itAulacoparia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze and Jaanusson 1956)