Glyptodesma allani
No picture of Glyptodesma allani 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 Glyptodesma allani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptodesmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Glyptodesma allani on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Murray Creek Formation · Reefton Group1
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The named rock units Glyptodesma allani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptodesma allani and its relatives
DevonianWhere Glyptodesma allani and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Allanetes1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Cryptonella1 site
- Euomphalidae1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria) pojetai1 site
- Loxonematidae1 site
- Modiomorpha herculi1 site
- Notonucula madida1 site
- Notonucula orilla1 site
- Notonucula subcircularis1 site
- Nuculodonta1 site
- Obrimia1 site
- Paleosolen miro n. sp.1 site
- Phestia1 site
- Phestia arenacea1 site
- Pholadella1 site
- Pleurothyrella1 site
- Ptychopteria1 site
- Rusophycus1 site
- Skolithos1 site
- Tentaculites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Glyptodesma allani, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Glyptodesma allani 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 Glyptodesma allani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptodesma allani 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGlyptodesma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bradshaw 1999