Avicula dunkeri

Avicula dunkeri

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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 1.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya199 Mya

1 occurrence of Avicula dunkeri on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

1 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.

Avicula dunkeri and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Avicula dunkeri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Avicula dunkeri, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Avicula dunkeri

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAvicula through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Terquem 1855