Ambonychinia quadrata
No picture of Ambonychinia quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Ambonychinia quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbonychiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 454 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 450.5 Mya.
2 occurrences of Ambonychinia quadrata 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ambonychinia quadrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ambonychinia quadrata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ambonychinia quadrata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi2 sites
- Cyrtodontula complanata2 sites
- Hedstroemina ungula2 sites
- Apianurus abietinus1 site
- Atractopyge1 site
- Broeggerolithus discors1 site
- Cyclonema1 site
- Decoroproetus furubergensis1 site
- Diplotrypa1 site
- Haplospira variabilis1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Kjerulfina foliovalve1 site
- Kjerulfina limbata1 site
- Kjerulfina polycyma1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) strandi1 site
- Lonchodomas rostratus1 site
- Nicolella1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Oxoplecia1 site
- Parastrophinella1 site
- Platylichas laxatus1 site
- Plectorthis1 site
- Polygrammoceras1 site
- Protokionoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ambonychinia quadrata, 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 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Ambonychinia quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ambonychinia quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ambonychinia quadrata 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 itAmbonychinia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hind 1910)