Aldania
Searched as Aldania sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Aldania as the accepted name.
No picture of Aldania was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aldania itself, so it was not used. 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 Aldania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChancelloriidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chancelloriidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chancelloriidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chancelloriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Coeloscleritophora
Time the record covers
At least 395 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya.
4 occurrences of Aldania on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Ozhogino Suite Formation1
- Helvetiafjellet Formation · Adventdalen Group1
- Pestrotsvet Formation1
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The named rock units Aldania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aldania and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aldania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aldania, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
3 references- Stratigraphy and composition of the Mesozoic deposits in central Vestspitsbergen2
- Морфологическое Разнообразие Склеритов Ханцеллорий. (Morphological Diversity of Sclerites of Chancelloria)1
- Mesozoic flora of the area to the west of the Kolyma River (Zyryanka coal basin). Part 2. Ginkgoales, Coniferales. General chapters1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Aldania was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aldania itself, so it was not used.
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 Aldania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aldania 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 itChancelloriidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vasil'yeva 1985