Aparimella apteryx
No picture of Aparimella apteryx 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 Aparimella apteryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AparimellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Aparimella apteryx on record, most of them in the Middle 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
11 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
4 formations
- Pears Formation · Taringatura Group1
- Port Molyneux Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
- Waituti Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
- Rabbiters Hut Formation · Corbies Creek Group1
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The named rock units Aparimella apteryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aparimella apteryx and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Aparimella apteryx and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Sakawairhynchia zealandica8 sites
- Alipunctifera kaihikuana2 sites
- Mentzeliopsis2 sites
- Mentzeliopsis spinosa2 sites
- Adygella himalayana1 site
- Alipunctifera1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Balantioselena gairi1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Fletcherina zealandica1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Kamupena greggi1 site
- Lingula aoraki1 site
- Maorirhynchia nuggetensis1 site
- Myophoria1 site
- Palaeoneilo1 site
- Permophorus1 site
- Pleurotomaria1 site
- Sakawairhynchia corbiensis1 site
- Triaphorus1 site
- Trochidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Aparimella apteryx, 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
3 references- The Triassic bivalves Daonella and Halobia in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Svalbard.8
- Willsher Group and geology of the Triassic Kaka Point coastal section, south-east Otago, New Zealand2
- Triassic fossils from Corbies Creek, north Otago1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Aparimella apteryx 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 Aparimella apteryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aparimella apteryx 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 itAparimella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marwick 1953)