Aucellina coquandiana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AucellinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Buchiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aucellina coquandiana on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
- Kangbacunkou Formation · Kangpa Group2
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation1
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The named rock units Aucellina coquandiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aucellina coquandiana and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aucellina coquandiana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Aporrhaidae1 site
- Belemnoidea1 site
- Birostrina1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hemiaster1 site
- Holaster1 site
- Isocardia1 site
- Lyelliceras1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Nummocalcar1 site
- Otohoplites1 site
- Paraturbo1 site
- Phylloceras (Goretophylloceras) subalpinum1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Protanisoceras1 site
- Puzosia1 site
- Semisolarium1 site
- Spyridoceramus1 site
- Trochocyathus1 site
- Uhligella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aucellina coquandiana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Cretaceous bivalves of Kangpa Group, South Xizang, China and their biogeography2
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aucellina coquandiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aucellina coquandiana 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 itAucellina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1846)