Actinodesma (Actinodesma)
No picture of Actinodesma (Actinodesma) 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 Actinodesma (Actinodesma), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinodesmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Actinodesma (Actinodesma) 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Actinodesma (Actinodesma) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinodesma (Actinodesma) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Actinodesma (Actinodesma) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Aviculopecten3 sites
- Newellipecten3 sites
- Palaeoneilo lirata3 sites
- Pterinopecten3 sites
- Pterinopecten mundus3 sites
- Streblopteria3 sites
- Acanthopecten2 sites
- Euchondria2 sites
- Euchondria vera2 sites
- Fasciculiconcha2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma)2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) anatinum2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) cultellata2 sites
- Palaeolima2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Paracyclas2 sites
- Parallelodon2 sites
- Pernopecten2 sites
- Pterinopecten (Vertumnia)2 sites
- Aglaoglypta labyrinthodes1 site
- Angyomphalus junius1 site
- Australoxa anglica1 site
- Bellerophon subglobatus1 site
- Borestus hamlingii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinodesma (Actinodesma), 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 references- Shallow marine bivalves at the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary from the Velbert Anticline (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)2
- Bivalven des hoechsten Oberdevons im Bergischen Land (Strunium; noerdliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Actinodesma (Actinodesma) 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 Actinodesma (Actinodesma), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinodesma (Actinodesma) 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 itActinodesma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sandberger 1856