Aspidostoma duoavicularia
SAIAB · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspidostomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Aspidostoma duoavicularia 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Aspidostoma duoavicularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aspidostoma duoavicularia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aspidostoma duoavicularia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Aspidostoma enchiridium2 sites
- Aspidostoma obesum2 sites
- Aspidostoma titan2 sites
- Filifascigera invenusta2 sites
- Microeciella sparsipora2 sites
- Paraflustrella lacunosa2 sites
- Praelacazella wetherelli2 sites
- Rhagasostoma infelix2 sites
- Akatopora oviaviculata1 site
- Aspidostoma gleddeni1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Biaviculigera1 site
- Bubnoffiella ambigua1 site
- Cardabiella ovicellata1 site
- Cheethamia dividia1 site
- Cianotremella dimorpha1 site
- Cianotremella pilbara1 site
- Cryptostomella aspinosa1 site
- Cryptostomella giralia1 site
- Discocavea1 site
- Ellisina1 site
- Eomacropora molesta1 site
- Filisinella tenuiaviculata1 site
- Floridinella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aspidostoma duoavicularia, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aspidostoma duoavicularia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- SAIAB
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aspidostoma duoavicularia 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.
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What may have been alongside itAspidostoma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Håkansson et al. 2024