Ambonychinia amygdalina
No picture of Ambonychinia amygdalina 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 Ambonychinia amygdalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbonychiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ambonychinia amygdalina on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Chasmops Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Ambonychinia amygdalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ambonychinia amygdalina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ambonychinia amygdalina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Cuneamya2 sites
- Vanuxemia2 sites
- Achatella achates1 site
- Alaskadiscus disculus1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Bucania halli1 site
- Campylorthis deflecta1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Ctenodonta logani1 site
- Ctenodonta madisonensis1 site
- Ctenodonta nasuta1 site
- Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi1 site
- Cyclonema gracile1 site
- Cyrtodontula1 site
- Cyrtodontula complanata1 site
- Cyrtodontula compressa1 site
- Cyrtodontula dubia1 site
- Cyrtodontula obliquata1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri1 site
- Dalmanella whittakeri1 site
- Dekayella1 site
- Dinorthis1 site
- Dinorthis pectinella1 site
- Eotomaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ambonychinia amygdalina, 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- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 11, Pelecypoda1
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 Ambonychinia amygdalina 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 Ambonychinia amygdalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ambonychinia amygdalina 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 itAmbonychinia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)