Fuchsella amygdalina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FuchsellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Fuchsella amygdalina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
34 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
7 formations
- Overton Formation26
- Lower Leintwardine Formation3
- Lower Whitcliffe Formation1
- Whitcliffe Formation1
- Upper Blaisdon Beds Formation1
- Lower Longhope Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Fuchsella amygdalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fuchsella amygdalina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Fuchsella amygdalina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Protochonetes ludloviensis29 sites
- Salopina lunata29 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula21 sites
- Rugadiscina rugata21 sites
- Serpulites21 sites
- Craniops19 sites
- Leioclema19 sites
- Michelinoceras19 sites
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis18 sites
- Ceramopora17 sites
- Cytherellina15 sites
- Loxonema obsoleta15 sites
- Hyolithes14 sites
- Dayia navicula13 sites
- Nuculites13 sites
- Kionoceras12 sites
- Orthoceras12 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii12 sites
- Hebellum11 sites
- Pteronitella11 sites
- Calcaribeyrichia10 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula10 sites
- Pterinea10 sites
- Scaldianella10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Fuchsella amygdalina, 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
6 references- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England26
- The geology of the May Hill Inlier3
- Faunal associations of the Lower Leintwardine Formation of the Anglo-Welsh Basin2
- Review of UK Silurian associations1
- Calef and Hancock's Ludlow communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire1
Each of the 34 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 Fuchsella amygdalina 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 Fuchsella amygdalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fuchsella amygdalina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. (Sowerby 1827)