Avicula beisseli
No picture of Avicula beisseli 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 Avicula beisseli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AviculaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 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 Avicula beisseli 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Avicula beisseli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Avicula beisseli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Avicula beisseli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Amauropsis amoena2 sites
- Aporrhais rapax2 sites
- Baculites valognensis2 sites
- Dimyodon intusradiatum2 sites
- Eutrephoceras depressum2 sites
- Helicaulax falcata2 sites
- Hemiaster orbignyi2 sites
- Hoploscaphites constrictus2 sites
- Limea nux2 sites
- Lispodesthes magnifica2 sites
- Margaritella kokeni2 sites
- Margaritella stellata2 sites
- Nucula subredempta2 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus2 sites
- Pinna cretacea2 sites
- Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum2 sites
- Rachiosoma corollare2 sites
- Solarium lartetianum2 sites
- Syncyclonema nilsoni2 sites
- Trochocyathus carbonarius2 sites
- Typocidaris serrata2 sites
- Volutilithes angustata2 sites
- Actaeon blanckenhorni1 site
- Acutostrea incurva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Avicula beisseli, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Avicula beisseli 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 Avicula beisseli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Avicula beisseli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAvicula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1859