Alveolella
No picture of Alveolella 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 Alveolella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LichviniidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Platycopida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Alveolella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Alveolella 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.
Alveolella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Alveolella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Calcaribeyrichia2 sites
- Aechmina1 site
- Amygdalella1 site
- Anthinocrinus1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea)1 site
- Atrypoidea scheii1 site
- Berolinella1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Bingeria1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cavellina1 site
- Cryptolopholobus cf. semilaqueatus1 site
- Eokloedenia1 site
- Eridotrypa1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
- Fistuliramus1 site
- Healdianella1 site
- Hebellum1 site
- Hemsiella1 site
- Kiaeritia1 site
- Kuresaaria1 site
- Lophoctenella1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alveolella, 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- The chief Wenlockian-Lochkovian benthic communities of the Vaigach to southern Novaya Zemlya region1
- Ostracode fauna, stratigraphy and definition of the Beyrichienkalk sequence1
Each of the 2 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 Alveolella 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 Alveolella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alveolella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLichviniidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.