Aphrodina

Aphrodina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallocardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 295 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 232 of 295 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 295 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 295 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 10 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 10 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 5 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 9 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 9 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 9 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 30 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 71 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 65 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 30 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 12 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132.6 Mya59.24 Mya139 Mya54 Mya

295 occurrences of Aphrodina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

295 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

50 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.03°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.81°N, 96.83°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.64°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 33.70°N, 96.58°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WMikasa Sandstone — 43.13°N, 141.97°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.25°N, 141.95°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.03°N, 141.95°EChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.61°N, 88.60°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.19°N, 95.22°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WAzilé — 0.39°N, 9.48°EMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMungo River — 4.48°N, 9.49°EKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°ECorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WEscondido — 29.35°N, 99.06°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.49°WRaritan — 40.30°N, 74.36°WRaritan — 40.46°N, 74.36°WDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.40°W

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The named rock units Aphrodina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrodina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Aphrodina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 203 sites for Aphrodina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

49 references

Each of the 295 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. 37 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 content1

Picture of Aphrodina

Source
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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphrodina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1869