Octonaria

Octonaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopidaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 40 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 28 of 40 occurrencesDevonian463–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 8 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 10 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences458.2 Mya387.95 Mya463 Mya381 Mya

40 occurrences of Octonaria 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

40 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

13 formations

Silica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 76.53°WOnondaga — 40.42°N, 77.19°WOnondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 40.54°N, 77.70°WOnondaga — 39.73°N, 78.08°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WLinxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EHuangnigang — 28.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 108.00°ESaErGanTag — 40.00°N, 78.00°ETonoloway — 39.57°N, 78.83°WKope — 39.07°N, 84.47°W

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The named rock units Octonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Octonaria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Octonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

547 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Octonaria, 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

14 references

Each of the 40 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. 2 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Octonaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Octonaria 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 itPodocopida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1887