Aviculopinna

Aviculopinna

Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Barry Stephen Kues · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PinnidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pinnidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinnidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinnidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 60 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 40 of 60 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 60 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 9 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 4 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 6 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences330.3 Mya254.14 Mya338 Mya250 Mya

60 occurrences of Aviculopinna on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

60 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

32 formations

Graham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WHarpersville — 32.96°N, 98.76°WHarpersville — 31.50°N, 99.37°WHarpersville — 33.11°N, 98.59°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WRoot Shale — 38.66°N, 95.92°WRoot Shale — 38.20°N, 96.22°WRoot Shale — 37.24°N, 96.53°WWood Siding — 40.30°N, 95.64°WWood Siding — 39.07°N, 96.00°WWood Siding — 39.50°N, 96.08°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WColina — 31.25°N, 110.49°WFord — 54.91°N, 1.43°WZechstein — 51.08°N, 15.87°EMoran — 31.55°N, 99.48°WPueblo — 31.55°N, 99.48°WStotler Limestone — 38.20°N, 96.22°WOnaga Shale — 39.55°N, 96.25°WJanesville Shale — 39.39°N, 96.19°WForaker Limestone — 39.07°N, 96.12°WGrenola Limestone — 37.37°N, 96.54°WGrenola — 37.24°N, 96.57°WBeattie — 37.10°N, 96.49°WDennis — 38.42°N, 94.75°WRustler — 31.61°N, 104.23°WHambast — 30.89°N, 53.22°EPanther Seep — 32.92°N, 106.66°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°W

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The named rock units Aviculopinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aviculopinna and its relatives

Permian

Where Aviculopinna and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

530 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Aviculopinna, 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

25 references

Each of the 60 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. 13 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 Aviculopinna

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Barry Stephen Kues
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aviculopinna 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864