Ambonychia

Ambonychia

Kristjan Bobkov (3D model), Jaagup Metsalu (render) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmbonychiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 352 of 356 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 356 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 356 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 12 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 14 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 28 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 152 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 72 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 62 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 10 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458.2 Mya413.02 Mya473 Mya409 Mya

356 occurrences of Ambonychia 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

356 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

62 formations

Waynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.36°N, 84.36°WWaynesville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WWaynesville — 39.40°N, 83.98°WWaynesville — 39.51°N, 84.76°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WCorryville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 39.06°N, 84.44°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.53°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WOregonia — 39.44°N, 84.98°WOregonia — 39.34°N, 84.95°WOregonia — 39.48°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 39.22°N, 84.08°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.13°N, 84.60°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 38.58°N, 83.70°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.34°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WSunset — 39.43°N, 84.60°WSunset — 39.33°N, 84.07°WSunset — 38.49°N, 83.76°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.54°N, 84.34°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.13°N, 84.62°WSunset — 39.03°N, 83.85°WFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WMartinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 37.35°N, 80.81°WMartinsburg — 36.84°N, 81.72°WMiamitown — 39.12°N, 84.51°WMiamitown — 39.17°N, 84.58°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 38.60°N, 85.28°WWhitewater — 39.80°N, 84.09°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WLorraine — 46.20°N, 72.33°WLorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 45.97°N, 81.93°WLorraine — 45.38°N, 75.60°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 43.76°N, 79.63°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WLorraine — 43.70°N, 79.51°WLorraine — 45.36°N, 75.35°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.03°N, 84.51°WBellevue — 39.17°N, 84.12°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 38.87°N, 83.91°WMount Auburn — 39.33°N, 84.07°WMount Auburn — 39.41°N, 84.50°WMount Auburn — 39.43°N, 84.60°WBull Fork — 39.39°N, 83.92°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WBull Fork — 38.60°N, 83.72°WGeorgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.67°WGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WGeorgian Bay — 45.92°N, 82.28°WGeorgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.60°WGeorgian Bay — 43.74°N, 79.56°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WClays Ferry — 38.31°N, 84.85°WClays Ferry — 37.88°N, 84.34°WClays Ferry — 37.65°N, 85.07°WCalloway Creek — 37.46°N, 84.82°WCalloway Creek — 37.45°N, 84.84°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.93°WMaquoketa — 42.12°N, 90.07°WMaquoketa — 42.50°N, 90.66°WMaquoketa — 42.50°N, 91.25°WLeipers — 35.18°N, 86.99°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WArnheim — 36.30°N, 86.65°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WGrant Lake — 39.25°N, 84.25°WGrant Lake — 37.66°N, 85.17°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.05°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°W

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The named rock units Ambonychia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ambonychia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ambonychia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

943 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 337 sites for Ambonychia, and this reads 240 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

48 references

Each of the 356 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Ambonychia

Credit
Kristjan Bobkov (3D model), Jaagup Metsalu (render)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Ambonychia sp. · iu:igws:0080

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1847