Whiteavsia expansa
No picture of Whiteavsia expansa 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 Whiteavsia expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WhiteavsiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Mytilida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Whiteavsia expansa 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group2
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The named rock units Whiteavsia expansa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Whiteavsia expansa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Whiteavsia expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Ambonychiopsis curvata2 sites
- Amphilichas minganensis2 sites
- Ctenodonta peracuta2 sites
- Cyrtodonta scala2 sites
- Endodesma tranceps2 sites
- Archinacella deformata1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni1 site
- Bucania sulcatina1 site
- Calyptaulax annulata1 site
- Camerella ventricosa1 site
- Ceraurinella pompilia1 site
- Ceraurus hudsoni1 site
- Cleionychia marginalis1 site
- Cleionychia montrealensis1 site
- Clidophorus obscurus1 site
- Ctenodonta bidorsata1 site
- Ctenodonta dubiaformis1 site
- Cymatonota1 site
- Dactylogonia incrassata1 site
- Eastonillaenus incertus1 site
- Eccyliopterus kalmi1 site
- Eurychilina latimarginata1 site
- Gonioceras chaziense1 site
- Hibbertia valcourensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Whiteavsia expansa, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Whiteavsia expansa 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 Whiteavsia expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Whiteavsia expansa 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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What may have been alongside itWhiteavsia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1906