Aphanaia mitchelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AphanaiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Aphanaia mitchelli 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
5 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
3 formations
- Mangarewa Formation · Productus Creek Group3
- Muree Formation1
- Gerringong Formation1
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The named rock units Aphanaia mitchelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aphanaia mitchelli and its relatives
PermianWhere Aphanaia mitchelli and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Vacunella curvata3 sites
- Warthia micromphala3 sites
- Arctitreta2 sites
- Fletcherithyris galbina2 sites
- Keeneia ocula2 sites
- Mesopunctia macropustulosus2 sites
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana2 sites
- Nuculopsis oviformis2 sites
- Nucundata obliqua2 sites
- Nucundata undata2 sites
- Platyteichum loratum2 sites
- Polidevcia antequadrata2 sites
- Polidevcia ovata2 sites
- Pyramus myiformis2 sites
- Aperispirifer lethamensis1 site
- Arctitreta pelicanensis1 site
- Astartila intrepida1 site
- Bransonia australe1 site
- Bransonia robustum1 site
- Corrugopecten altoprimus1 site
- Corrugopecten multicostatus1 site
- Cycloscena glabra1 site
- Deltopecten1 site
- Echinalosia wassi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aphanaia mitchelli, 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
2 references- New Zealand species of the Permian bivalve Atomodesma Beyrich3
- XXVIII. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia2
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Aphanaia mitchelli was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aphanaia mitchelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAphanaia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1847)