Aulacothyris

Aulacothyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulacothyrinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 186 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 279 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 279 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 279 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 44 of 279 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 45 of 279 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 119 of 279 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 59 of 279 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 279 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 279 occurrences344–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–242 Mya — about 24 occurrences242–235 Mya — about 31 occurrences235–228 Mya — about 20 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 5 occurrences221–214 Mya — about 3 occurrences214–207 Mya — about 5 occurrences207–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–187 Mya — about 48 occurrences187–180 Mya — about 61 occurrences180–173 Mya — about 7 occurrences173–166 Mya — about 28 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 30 occurrences160–153 Mya — about 9 occurrences153–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences335.9 Mya149.2 Mya344 Mya139 Mya

279 occurrences of Aulacothyris on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

279 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

47 formations

Turmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WPadrinas — 42.22°N, 1.50°EPadrinas — 42.39°N, 0.74°EPadrinas — 42.03°N, 0.81°EPadrinas — 41.89°N, 0.88°EPadrinas — 42.45°N, 0.50°EBarre a Pecten — 42.13°N, 1.76°EBarre a Pecten — 42.18°N, 1.42°EBarre a Pecten — 42.24°N, 1.66°EBarre a Pecten — 42.19°N, 1.24°EBarre a Pecten — 42.13°N, 1.33°EBarre a Pecten — 42.03°N, 0.81°EBarre a Pecten — 42.45°N, 0.50°E"Macrocephalen Oolith" — 48.85°N, 10.35°E"Macrocephalen Oolith" — 48.27°N, 8.85°E"Macrocephalen Oolith" — 47.82°N, 8.57°E"Macrocephalen Oolith" — 47.92°N, 8.63°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°EEsino — 45.91°N, 9.69°EFatu — 9.76°S, 124.12°EFatu — 9.45°S, 124.43°EFatu — 9.40°S, 124.54°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WSandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.33°N, 17.64°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°EKorytnica Limestones — 49.08°N, 19.33°EZhuganpo — 25.90°N, 105.42°EZhuganpo — 25.65°N, 105.34°E"Humphriesi Oolith" — 48.75°N, 9.82°E"Humphriesi Oolith" — 48.03°N, 8.68°E"Humphriesi Oolith" — 48.85°N, 10.35°EHierlatz — 47.19°N, 17.87°ECerro del Pez — 41.29°N, 0.79°WHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°EHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°EPolaten — 42.42°N, 22.73°EPolaten — 43.63°N, 22.68°EVillány — 45.87°N, 18.45°ERodiles — 43.52°N, 5.33°WBolila — 31.92°N, 98.01°ECorniola — 41.96°N, 12.80°ESenkoy — 40.44°N, 39.52°E

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The named rock units Aulacothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 159 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulacothyris and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Aulacothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 209 sites for Aulacothyris, 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

78 references

Each of the 279 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. 66 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Aulacothyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aulacothyris 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 itAulacothyrinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douville 1880)