Aphelesia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphelesiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 6 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 53 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.0–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–243 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya1.8 Mya27.8 Mya243 ka

53 occurrences of Aphelesia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

53 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

3 formations

Doberg — 52.18°N, 8.61°EDoberg — 52.31°N, 8.15°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°EArgille di Ortovera — 44.09°N, 8.21°E

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The named rock units Aphelesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphelesia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aphelesia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Aphelesia, 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

16 references

Each of the 53 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Aphelesia 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 itAphelesiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1959