Alveus depressus
No picture of Alveus depressus 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 Alveus depressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrocheilinellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Alveus depressus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Alveus depressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alveus depressus and its relatives
PermianWhere Alveus depressus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Acanthocoryna stauroma1 site
- Acosarina mesoplatys1 site
- Amphissites centronotus1 site
- Amphissites knighti1 site
- Ananias labrectus1 site
- Ananias ootomaria1 site
- Anemonaria sublaevis1 site
- Annuliconcha dentata1 site
- Anomphalus studiosus1 site
- Apachella exaggerata1 site
- Apachella franciscana1 site
- Apachella nodosa1 site
- Apachella turbiniformis1 site
- Aurikirkbya auriformis1 site
- Aurikirkbya barbarae1 site
- Aurikirkbya wordensis1 site
- Bairdia permiana1 site
- Bairdia pruniseminata1 site
- Bairdia rhomboidalis1 site
- Bairdia subfusiformis1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) hilli1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum1 site
- Bellerophon deflectus1 site
- Biarmeaspira multilineata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alveus depressus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Alveus depressus 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 Alveus depressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alveus depressus 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 itMicrocheilinella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hamilton 1942