Aviculopecten germanus
No picture of Aviculopecten germanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten germanus itself, so it was not used. 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 Aviculopecten germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AviculopectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya.
3 occurrences of Aviculopecten germanus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Douglas Formation2
- Alvy Creek Formation · Breathitt Group1
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The named rock units Aviculopecten germanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aviculopecten germanus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Aviculopecten germanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Gastropoda3 sites
- Archaeocidaris2 sites
- Aviculopecten occidentalis2 sites
- Composita argentea2 sites
- Derbya keokuk2 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus2 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus2 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus2 sites
- Fusulina secalica2 sites
- Griffithides scitula2 sites
- Hustedia mormoni2 sites
- Linoproductus cora2 sites
- Meekella striatocostata2 sites
- Myalina2 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Penniretepora2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata2 sites
- Reticularia perplexa2 sites
- Septopora biserialis2 sites
- Tainoceras occidentalis2 sites
- Vertebrata2 sites
- ? Posidonomya pertennuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aviculopecten germanus, 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- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.2
- Paleontological survey of the Pennsylvanian rocks of the eastern Kentucky coal field: Part 1, invertebrates1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Aviculopecten germanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten germanus itself, so it was not used.
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 Aviculopecten germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aviculopecten germanus 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 itAviculopecten through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Faber 1892