Aechmella ambigua

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AechmellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–9.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.5–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85.7 Mya33.9 Mya91 Mya4 Mya

6 occurrences of Aechmella ambigua on record. 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

6 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

2 formations

Glenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°E

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The named rock units Aechmella ambigua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aechmella ambigua, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Aechmella ambigua 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 itAechmella through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1895)