Aurikirkbya

Searched as Aurikirkbya kelletae. The Paleobiology Database treats Aurikirkbya as the accepted name.

Aurikirkbya is an extinct genus of ostracod belonging to the suborder Beyrichicopina and family Kirkbyidae. It is found in Pennsylvanian to Triassic beds in North America, east Asia, southwest Asia, and Europe.

Aurikirkbya

I.G. Sohn · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KirkbyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 318.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya318.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Aurikirkbya on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

Barnett — 31.04°N, 98.25°W

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

Aurikirkbya and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aurikirkbya and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Aurikirkbya, 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

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

Media content1

Picture of Aurikirkbya

Credit
I.G. Sohn
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aurikirkbya 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKirkbyidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohn 1950