Arcavicula

No picture of Arcavicula 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 Arcavicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 53 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 26 of 53 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 26 of 53 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 53 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 12 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 14 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 3 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 3 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya211.18 Mya249.5 Mya200.5 Mya

53 occurrences of Arcavicula 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

53 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

4 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ELuning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°WMartin Bridge — 45.00°N, 116.00°W

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The named rock units Arcavicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arcavicula and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Arcavicula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Arcavicula, 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

6 references

Each of the 53 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 Arcavicula 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 Arcavicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Arcavicula 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 itPteriidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1964