Aviculopecten morrowensis
No picture of Aviculopecten morrowensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten morrowensis 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 morrowensis, 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 most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aviculopecten morrowensis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aviculopecten morrowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aviculopecten morrowensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Aviculopecten morrowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Goniatites granosus1 site
- Patellilabia laevigata1 site
- Peripetoceras ozarkense1 site
- Platyceras (Orthonychia) compressum1 site
- Trepospira (Angyomphalus) discus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aviculopecten morrowensis, 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 Aviculopecten morrowensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aviculopecten morrowensis 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 morrowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aviculopecten morrowensis 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. Girty 1910