Avalanchia pterocarina
No picture of Avalanchia pterocarina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Avalanchia pterocarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AvalanchiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 429.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Avalanchia pterocarina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Avalanchia pterocarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Avalanchia pterocarina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Avalanchia pterocarina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Acidaspis1 site
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) blodgetti1 site
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) variabilis1 site
- Atrypoidea latilingulata1 site
- Borealarges renodis1 site
- Borealarges variabilis1 site
- Calymene polgari1 site
- Caryogyps chattertoni1 site
- Caryogyps grayi1 site
- Cassowarioides perryi1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina)1 site
- Clorinda parvolinguifera1 site
- Cymbidium kirki1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Cyrtia alatiformis1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Diacalymene gabrielsi1 site
- Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis)1 site
- Dicoelosia parvifrons1 site
- Dicranogmus lepidus1 site
- Dicranogmus wilsoni1 site
- Dicranopeltis1 site
- Dudleyaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Avalanchia pterocarina, 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
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No picture of Avalanchia pterocarina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Avalanchia pterocarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Avalanchia pterocarina 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 itAvalanchia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Caldwell and Chatterton 1995