Abertella

Abertella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AbertellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya – 13.82 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

14 occurrences of Abertella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

14 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

7 formations

Choptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.47°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.23°WGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°WChipola — 30.50°N, 85.12°WTorreya — 30.57°N, 84.95°WArcadia — 27.22°N, 81.86°WCoosawhatchie — 29.75°N, 82.43°WChenque — 46.03°S, 67.60°W

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

Abertella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Abertella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Abertella, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 Abertella

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

No 3D scan of Abertella 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.

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What may have been alongside itAbertellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1953