Orvikuina vardiaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrvikuinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Orvikuina vardiaensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Narva Formation2
- Gorodok Formation2
- Kastyukovichi Formation2
- Narva Formation1
- Osveya Formation1
- Polotsk Formation1
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The named rock units Orvikuina vardiaensis 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.
Orvikuina vardiaensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Orvikuina vardiaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Glyptolepis6 sites
- Pycnosteus5 sites
- Asterolepis4 sites
- Ganosteus4 sites
- Acanthodes3 sites
- Actinolepis tuberculata3 sites
- Asterolepis estonica3 sites
- Byssacanthus3 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus3 sites
- Cephalaspidida3 sites
- Cheirolepis3 sites
- Coccosteus cuspidatus3 sites
- Dipterus serratus3 sites
- Haplacanthus marginalis3 sites
- Homostius latus3 sites
- Moythomasia lebedevi3 sites
- Osteolepidae3 sites
- Psammolepis3 sites
- Schizosteus striatus3 sites
- Thursius fischeri3 sites
- Cheiracanthus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus2 sites
- Diplacanthus gravis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Orvikuina vardiaensis, 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
3 references- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus9
- A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus3
- Lithosphere1
Each of the 13 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 Orvikuina vardiaensis 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 Orvikuina vardiaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orvikuina vardiaensis 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 itOrvikuina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gross 1953