Avicula problematica

No picture of Avicula problematica 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 problematica, 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 least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 365.2 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 368.5 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian371–367 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences365.2 Mya266.9 Mya371 Mya262 Mya

2 occurrences of Avicula problematica on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

Three Forks — 45.88°N, 111.43°W

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The named rock units Avicula problematica 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 problematica and its relatives

Devonian

Where Avicula problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Avicula problematica, 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

Each 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

Media content0

No picture of Avicula problematica 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 problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Avicula problematica 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 DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Gregorio 1930