Autobranchia

Autobranchia

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BivalviaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 430 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovician — about 252 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 197 of 12000 occurrencesDevonian — about 105 of 12000 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 327 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 76 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 212 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1388 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2386 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5682 of 12000 occurrencesPaleocene — about 261 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 1114 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrences496–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–465 Mya — about 7 occurrences465–449 Mya — about 122 occurrences449–433 Mya — about 197 occurrences433–417 Mya — about 126 occurrences417–402 Mya — about 20 occurrences402–386 Mya — about 28 occurrences386–370 Mya — about 36 occurrences370–355 Mya — about 24 occurrences355–339 Mya — about 78 occurrences339–323 Mya — about 49 occurrences323–307 Mya — about 53 occurrences307–292 Mya — about 208 occurrences292–276 Mya — about 7 occurrences276–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–150 Mya — about 466 occurrences150–135 Mya — about 1740 occurrences135–119 Mya — about 879 occurrences119–103 Mya — about 794 occurrences103–88 Mya — about 671 occurrences88–72 Mya — about 569 occurrences72–56 Mya — about 4805 occurrences56–41 Mya — about 801 occurrences41–25 Mya — about 317 occurrences468 Mya37.71 Mya496 Mya25 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Autobranchia on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 198 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.28°N, 99.66°WKiowa — 37.22°N, 99.90°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.18°WKiowa — 38.41°N, 97.99°WKiowa — 38.28°N, 98.41°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.82°WKiowa — 38.53°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.43°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.65°N, 98.01°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.93°WKiowa — 38.54°N, 98.01°WKiowa — 38.89°N, 97.79°WKiowa — 38.73°N, 97.53°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.75°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WJalama — 34.53°N, 120.41°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.45°WJalama — 34.50°N, 120.34°WShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.30°N, 104.14°WPierre Shale — 43.26°N, 104.22°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.27°N, 104.72°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WClayton — 31.88°N, 85.45°WClayton — 31.83°N, 86.62°WClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.33°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 31.14°N, 87.94°WClayton — 32.21°N, 87.48°WClayton — 31.71°N, 85.61°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.71°WClayton — 31.72°N, 86.26°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 31.98°N, 86.97°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ENanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WSandgate — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.12°N, 1.00°ESandgate — 51.23°N, 0.22°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°WFolkestone — 51.28°N, 0.53°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.20°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.97°WAtherfield Clay — 51.13°N, 1.32°EAtherfield Clay — 51.28°N, 0.53°EAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.22°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WMadbi — 14.27°N, 48.56°EMadbi — 14.32°N, 48.45°EColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WColeraine — 47.29°N, 93.43°WDakhla — 25.50°N, 29.42°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.00°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°EDakhla — 25.00°N, 30.75°EPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°ELopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°W

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The named rock units Autobranchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 174 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6,050 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,592 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 362 sites for Autobranchia, and this reads 240 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

at least 148 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 136 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Autobranchia

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Autobranchia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBivalvia through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Groblen 1894)