Arthropleura

Searched as Halonia. The Paleobiology Database treats Arthropleura as the accepted name.

No picture of Arthropleura 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 Arthropleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArthropleuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 61 of 62 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 62 occurrencesPermian348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 11 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 8 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 7 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 7 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya298.9 Mya348 Mya289 Mya

62 occurrences of Arthropleura 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

62 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

21 formations

Lower Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.28°N, 7.03°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.46°N, 7.91°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.26°N, 7.00°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.34°N, 7.17°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 51.01°N, 7.14°EFarrington — 51.30°N, 2.43°WWettin — 51.63°N, 11.95°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.30°EFoel — 53.00°N, 3.00°WLuisenthal — 49.32°N, 7.05°EUntere Saarbrücker Schichten — 49.76°N, 7.35°EUpper Saarbrücker Shale — 49.33°N, 7.14°EBerthelsdorf — 51.12°N, 12.50°EFlénu — 50.44°N, 3.88°EZwickau — 50.70°N, 12.51°ESan José — 42.88°N, 5.64°WSan Giorgio — 39.29°N, 8.52°EStainmore — 55.46°N, 1.59°WCommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EMiddle Coal Measures — 52.99°N, 1.31°WPastora — 42.88°N, 5.64°WMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WKittanning — 40.80°N, 80.47°WGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Arthropleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthropleura and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Arthropleura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Arthropleura, 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

21 references

Each of the 62 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Arthropleura 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 Arthropleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Arthropleura 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 itArthropleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geinitz 1855