Avicula pellucida
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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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Avicula pellucida on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 pellucida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Avicula pellucida and its relatives
EoceneWhere Avicula pellucida and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Callista (Costacallista) hornii4 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii3 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana3 sites
- Pitar uvasana3 sites
- Amaurellina moragai2 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi2 sites
- Calorebama volutaeformis2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Conus hornii2 sites
- Conus remondii2 sites
- Crassatella uvasana2 sites
- Cyclinella elevata2 sites
- Cymatium2 sites
- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Ficopsis remondii2 sites
- Latirus sinuatus2 sites
- Modiolus ornatus2 sites
- Naticina obliqua2 sites
- Polinices hornii2 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii2 sites
- Surcula cowlitzensis2 sites
- Surculites sinuatus2 sites
- Tellina remondii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Avicula pellucida, 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
2 references- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington4
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California2
Each of the 6 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 pellucida 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 pellucida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Avicula pellucida 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.
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What may have been alongside itAvicula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1864