Avonia
Searched as Avonia youngiana. The Paleobiology Database treats Avonia as the accepted name.
No picture of Avonia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Avonia 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 Avonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AvoniiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 326.9 Mya.
19 occurrences of Avonia 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
19 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
12 formations
- Waterhouses Limestone Formation2
- Eyam Limestone Formation2
- Lower Limestone Formation2
- Cauldon Low Conglomerate Formation1
- Weaver Beds Formation1
- Gayle Limestone II Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Avonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Avonia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Avonia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,150 taxa- Spirifer31 sites
- Chonetes27 sites
- Dielasma24 sites
- Punctospirifer22 sites
- Ovatia21 sites
- Composita19 sites
- Hustedia19 sites
- Crinoidea18 sites
- Brachythyris16 sites
- Cleiothyridina16 sites
- Fenestella16 sites
- Marginifera16 sites
- Dictyoclostus15 sites
- Eomarginifera15 sites
- Richthofenioidea15 sites
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus14 sites
- Elivina14 sites
- Liosotella popei14 sites
- Pustula14 sites
- Camarotoechia13 sites
- Echinosteges guadalupensis13 sites
- Phricodothyris13 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata13 sites
- Syringothyris13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Avonia, 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
7 references- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire5
- Paleoecology of the Carboniferous reef complex and shelf limestones in the northwest Derbyshire, England4
- The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks of the Weaver Hills District, North Staffordshire4
- The origin and significance of the distribution of shelly macrofauna in Late Dinantian carbonate mud mounds of Derbyshire2
- The Lower Carboniferous sequence in the Howwood Syncline,Renfrewshire2
- A check list of brachiopods from Treak Cliff, Derbyshire, with reference to other Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) localities1
- A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortian Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin1
Each of the 19 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
Media content0
No picture of Avonia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Avonia 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 Avonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Avonia 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 itAvoniini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.