Amphiclina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KoninckinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Koninckinidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Koninckinidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Koninckinidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
55 occurrences of Amphiclina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
55 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
8 formations
- Sandorhegy Limestone Formation5
- Cassian Formation4
- Dachstein Formation2
- Csövar Formation2
- Yatyrgvarta Formation2
- Bolila Formation2
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The named rock units Amphiclina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphiclina and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Amphiclina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
582 taxa- Rhaetina pyriformis10 sites
- Diplospirella wissmanni9 sites
- Cassianopsis armata7 sites
- Dioristella indistincta7 sites
- Thecospira tirolensis7 sites
- Veghirhynchia arpadica7 sites
- Coelostylina conica6 sites
- Mysidioptera6 sites
- Naticopsis6 sites
- Neoretzia superba6 sites
- Rhaetina taurica6 sites
- Rhynchonella6 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Cassianella angusta5 sites
- Gervillia (Cultriopsis) angusta5 sites
- Gervillia angulata5 sites
- Hypsipleura subnodosa5 sites
- Katosira5 sites
- Laballa suessi5 sites
- Lima5 sites
- Pecten veszprimiensis5 sites
- Protorcula subpunctata5 sites
- Retzia5 sites
- Rhaetina gregaria5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Amphiclina, 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
15 references- Brachiopoden aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Brachiopods from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]13
- Dagys, 196311
- Carnian brachiopods of Hungary8
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud3
- The Mesozoic brachiopods of Xizang3
- O faune i flore Triasovykh otlozheniy doliny reki Salgir v Krymu3
- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo3
- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)2
- Brachiopods from the Upper Triassic reef habitats of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Dachstein Limestone, Hochschwab, Austria)2
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie2
- The serpulid-microbialite bioconstructions of the "Scisti Ittiolitici" basin of Giffoni Vallepiana (Upper Triassic, Southern Apennines)1
- Late Paleozoic and Triassic brachiopods from the east of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau1
Each of the 55 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. 3 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Amphiclina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphiclina 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 itKoninckinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laube 1865