Aviculopecten affinis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AviculopectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Aviculopecten affinis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Diamond Peak Formation3
- Moleen Formation · Ely Group1
- Baird Formation1
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The named rock units Aviculopecten affinis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aviculopecten affinis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Aviculopecten affinis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Crinoidea4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Auloprotonia3 sites
- Euomphalus3 sites
- Kaskia3 sites
- Nuculopsis3 sites
- Ovatia3 sites
- Ananias nevadensis2 sites
- Aviculopecten eurekensis2 sites
- Avonia2 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Cardiomorpha2 sites
- Coledium therum2 sites
- Cypricardinia2 sites
- Cystodictya2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Dimegelasma2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Edmondia2 sites
- Inflatia2 sites
- Leiorhynchus2 sites
- Lunulazona2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Moorefieldella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aviculopecten affinis, 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
3 references- Mississippian stratigraphy of the Diamond Peak Area, Eureka County, Nevada3
- A new species of Straparollus (Archaeogastropoda) from the Mississippian of Nevada1
- The Metamorphic Series of Shasta County, California1
Each of the 5 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aviculopecten affinis 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 Aviculopecten affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aviculopecten affinis 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.
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What may have been alongside itAviculopecten through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1884