Aviculopecten expositus
No picture of Aviculopecten expositus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten expositus itself, so it was not used. 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 expositus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aviculopecten expositus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Aviculopecten expositus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aviculopecten expositus and its relatives
PermianWhere Aviculopecten expositus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- "Athyris" (Composita) protea complanata1 site
- "Athyris" (Composita) protea patula1 site
- "Productus" (Linoproductus) aagardi implicata1 site
- "Strophalosia" excavata remota1 site
- Asperlinus asperulus1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata pinguis1 site
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata sacculus1 site
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata subcarinata1 site
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata subtenuis1 site
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) pectinifera venusta1 site
- Aviculopecten praecox1 site
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis1 site
- Chonetella nasuta1 site
- Chonetes (Dienerella) grandicosta biplex1 site
- Cleiothyridina capillata1 site
- Cleiothyridina dalmiriensis1 site
- Cleiothyridina grossula1 site
- Cleiothyridina interposita1 site
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa1 site
- Costiferina indica1 site
- Cyrolexis waageni1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Derbyia (Plicatoderbyia) aemula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aviculopecten expositus, 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 Aviculopecten expositus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten expositus itself, so it was not used.
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 expositus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aviculopecten expositus 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1944