Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura)
No picture of Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) 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 Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulacopleuraPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Aulacopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 75 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
7 occurrences of Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) 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- Ordovician86%
- Devonian14%
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
3 formations
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group3
- Dawan Formation3
- Rahal Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Amphilichas3 sites
- Anisonotus hornei3 sites
- Calyptaulax brongniartii3 sites
- Cybellela balclatchiensis3 sites
- Hammannopyge unica3 sites
- Lonchodomas3 sites
- Remopleurides3 sites
- Robergia barrandii3 sites
- Robergiella correcta3 sites
- Agerina elongata2 sites
- Ampyx2 sites
- Anisopleurella balclatchiensis2 sites
- Arthrorhachis2 sites
- Atractopyge2 sites
- Bronteopsis concentrica2 sites
- Calyptaulax hunteri2 sites
- Decoroproetus jamesoni2 sites
- Diacanthaspis2 sites
- Diacanthaspis lalage2 sites
- Encrinuroides2 sites
- Geragnostus2 sites
- Glaphurus2 sites
- Glyptomena brumalis2 sites
- Hanchungolithus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura), 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- Arenig trilobite associations of Daping, Yichang, Hubei, South China2
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda2
- Ordovician trilobites from the lower part of the Dawan Formation (Floian-Dapingian) at Huanghuachang, Yichang, Hubei, southern China1
- Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland1
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. I. Mit Beitraegen zur Silur-Devon-Stratigraphie einiger Gebiete Marokkos und Oberfrankens1
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 Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) 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 Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) 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 itAulacopleura through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chaubet 1937)