Vlasta americana

No picture of Vlasta americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Vlasta americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VlastaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At most 4.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Vlasta americana on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1 occurrences

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

Georgian Bay — 43.74°N, 79.56°W

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The named rock units Vlasta americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vlasta americana and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vlasta americana and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Vlasta americana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Vlasta americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Vlasta americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itVlasta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritz 1951