Flaventia

Scott, Robert · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapetiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
44 occurrences of Flaventia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
44 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Kiowa Formation20
- Lignites de Traiguera Formation2
- Halal Formation2
- Qasr Al Abid Formation2
- Al Baniyah Formation2
- Woodbine Formation1
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The named rock units Flaventia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Flaventia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Flaventia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
411 taxa- Protocardia16 sites
- Trachycardium16 sites
- Turritella belviderei14 sites
- Cyprimeria10 sites
- Drepanocheilus10 sites
- Ostreidae10 sites
- Corbula9 sites
- Crassostrea8 sites
- Praescabrotrigonia emoryi8 sites
- Corbulidae7 sites
- Modiolus7 sites
- Crassinella6 sites
- Cadulus5 sites
- Euspira5 sites
- Linearis5 sites
- Nucula5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Panopea5 sites
- Peilinia quadriplicata5 sites
- Phelopteria salinaensis5 sites
- Repichnia sp.5 sites
- Tellina5 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Flaventia, 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
14 references- Paleoecology and Paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas20
- Albian fauna of Gabal Manzour, Maghara area, north Sinai, Egypt5
- Late Cenomanian ammonites from NE Libya and the western desert of Egypt4
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez4
- La faune albienne de Traiguera (Province de Castellon - Espagne)2
- Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt1
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)1
- On the brain of a primitive bird from the Upper Cretaceous of European Russia1
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
- The Sardinian Early Cretaceous Bivalves and their Paleobiogeographic Affinities1
- Predatory gastropods and their activities in the Blackdown Greensand (Albian) of England1
- Characteristic lower Cretaceous megafossils from northern Alaska1
Each of the 44 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Flaventia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Scott, Robert
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTapetini through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jukes-Browne 1908)