Alectona

Alectona

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClionaidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Clionaidae
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Clionaidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Clionaidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41.03 Mya13.82 Mya48.8 Mya10.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Alectona on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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

3 formations

Lagos-Portimao — 37.17°N, 8.22°WObukhov — 48.37°N, 35.41°EKiev — 47.75°N, 33.24°E

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

Alectona and its relatives

Eocene

Where Alectona and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alectona, 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

2 references

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. 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

Media content1

Picture of Alectona

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Alectona 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 itClionaidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1879