Alvania (Linemera)

No picture of Alvania (Linemera) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Alvania (Linemera), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlvaniaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Rissoidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rissoidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rissoidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.9 Mya11.7 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Alvania (Linemera) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

5 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

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EPalau Limestone — 7.37°N, 134.58°E

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The named rock units Alvania (Linemera) 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.

Alvania (Linemera) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alvania (Linemera) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Alvania (Linemera), so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Alvania (Linemera) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Alvania (Linemera), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alvania (Linemera) 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 itAlvania through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finlay 1924)