Axinopsida orbiculata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AxinopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Axinopsida orbiculata on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene44%
- Holocene56%
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 Axinopsida orbiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea4 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata4 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Astarte borealis2 sites
- Astarte montagui2 sites
- Balanus crenatus2 sites
- Buccinum2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica2 sites
- Colus2 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis2 sites
- Mytilus edulis2 sites
- Neptunea despecta2 sites
- Nuculana pernula2 sites
- Oenopota2 sites
- Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus2 sites
- Thracia2 sites
- Thyasira flexuosa2 sites
- Trichotropis borealis2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Acirsa borealis1 site
- Alvania wyvillethomsoni1 site
- Astarte crenata1 site
- Astarte elliptica1 site
- Astarte sulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Axinopsida orbiculata, 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- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland2
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland2
- Brown bear (Ursus arctos) (9880 ± 35 BP) from late-glacial Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Canada, and the dispersal history of brown bears1
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Late Quaternary marine molluscan assemblages, Canadian Arctic achipelago1
- Marine paleoclimatology and paleoecology of a Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska1
- Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada)1
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits1
Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Axinopsida orbiculata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Axinopsida orbiculata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sars 1878)