Argyrotheca laevis
No picture of Argyrotheca laevis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Argyrotheca laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgyrothecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Megathyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Argyrotheca laevis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Argyrotheca laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Argyrotheca laevis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Argyrotheca laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Aequipecten1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Basilosauridae1 site
- Basilosaurus1 site
- Batequeus ducenticostatus1 site
- Caestocorbula wailesiana1 site
- Callista1 site
- Corbula densata1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Dermochelyidae1 site
- Eophysema1 site
- Eotheroides1 site
- Glycymeris staminea1 site
- Isocrania1 site
- Kapalmerella arenicola1 site
- Protosiren1 site
- Pterosphenus schucherti1 site
- Pycnodonte trigonalis1 site
- Scalina1 site
- Sconsia1 site
- Sirenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Argyrotheca laevis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Argyrotheca laevis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Argyrotheca laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Argyrotheca laevis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArgyrotheca through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1988