Australosutura

Australosutura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachymetopidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Brachymetopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 307.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 28 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence353–351 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 5 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 5 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 5 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353.7 Mya330.3 Mya360 Mya306 Mya

28 occurrences of Australosutura 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

28 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

8 formations

Fort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WCuyahoga — 40.08°N, 82.48°WCuyahoga — 41.15°N, 81.50°WCuyahoga — 41.03°N, 82.02°WYagon Siltstone — 32.40°S, 152.27°EYagon Siltstone — 32.42°S, 152.22°ELake Valley — 32.73°N, 107.57°WLake Valley — 32.83°N, 105.83°WChappel Limestone — 31.17°N, 98.98°WRangari limestone — 30.76°S, 150.36°EWootton — 32.63°S, 152.10°EChuanbutou — 25.28°N, 110.13°E

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

Australosutura and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Australosutura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Australosutura, 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

8 references

Each of the 28 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

Media content1

Picture of Australosutura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Australosutura 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 itBrachymetopidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell and Goldring 1960