Alvinia aequisculpta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Manzonia (Alvinia)PBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Rissoidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rissoidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rissoidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.08 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Alvinia aequisculpta on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°W

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

Alvinia aequisculpta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Alvinia aequisculpta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Alvinia aequisculpta, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Alvinia aequisculpta 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 Alvinia aequisculpta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alvinia aequisculpta 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 itManzonia (Alvinia) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Keep 1887)