Avicula obtusa
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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 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 233.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Avicula obtusa on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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 Avicula obtusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Avicula obtusa and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Avicula obtusa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Allostrophia perversa1 site
- Anatina gladius1 site
- Arcoptera elegantula1 site
- Avicula arcoidea1 site
- Avicula arcuata1 site
- Avicula cortinensis1 site
- Avicula difficilis1 site
- Avicularca cardiiformis1 site
- Botula cassiana1 site
- Calvaentolium saccoi1 site
- Camponaxis lateplicata1 site
- Cardita beneckei1 site
- Cardita guembeli1 site
- Cardita pichleri1 site
- Cardium ladinum1 site
- Cassianella ampezzana1 site
- Cassianella angusta1 site
- Cassianella beyrichii1 site
- Cassianella decussata1 site
- Cassianella euglypha1 site
- Cassianella euglyphoides1 site
- Cassianella gryphaeata1 site
- Cassianella tenuistria1 site
- Catella impressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Avicula obtusa, 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 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 content0
No picture of Avicula obtusa 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 Avicula obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Avicula obtusa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAvicula through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1895