Actinodonta ramseyensis

No picture of Actinodonta ramseyensis 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 Actinodonta ramseyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinodontaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cycloconchidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cycloconchidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cycloconchidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Actinodonta

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 470.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.6 Mya470.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Actinodonta ramseyensis 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

8 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

Ogof Hen — 51.88°N, 5.33°W

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

Actinodonta ramseyensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Actinodonta ramseyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Actinodonta ramseyensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 Actinodonta ramseyensis 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 Actinodonta ramseyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinodonta ramseyensis 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 itActinodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hicks 1873)