Alavesia

Alavesia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtelestinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 26 occurrencesLate Cretaceous106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence106.8 Mya93.4 Mya

26 occurrences of Alavesia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

26 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

Ullaga — 43.28°N, 5.85°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°W

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The named rock units Alavesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alavesia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Alavesia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

846 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Alavesia, 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

8 references

Each of the 26 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 Alavesia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alavesia 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 itAtelestinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waters and Arillo 1999