Flabellum avicula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
8 occurrences of Flabellum avicula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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 Flabellum avicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Flabellum avicula and its relatives
MioceneWhere Flabellum avicula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
297 taxa- Flabellum zuffardii3 sites
- Aquitanastraea incrustans2 sites
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus)2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) verrucosus2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) versicostatus2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Ceratocyathus) cornucopia2 sites
- Caryophyllia (Ceratocyathus) undulatus2 sites
- Ceratotrochus (Edwardsotrochus) bellingherianus2 sites
- Conocyathus2 sites
- Dendrophyllia cladocoracea2 sites
- Desmophyllum2 sites
- Enallopsammia poppelacki2 sites
- Favites2 sites
- Flabellum extensum2 sites
- Flabellum foecundum2 sites
- Flabellum siciliense2 sites
- Goniopora2 sites
- Heliastrea (Athecastraea)2 sites
- Madracis ornata2 sites
- Madrepora (Amphihelia)2 sites
- Madrepora profunda2 sites
- Paracyathus turonensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Flabellum avicula, 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
6 references- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]3
- New paleoenvironmental insights on the Miocene condensed phosphatic layer of Salento (southern Italy) unlocked by the coral‑mollusc fossil archive1
- La faune de coraux de l'Oligocene superieur de La Teoulere (Peyrehorade, Landes) [The Upper Oligocene coral fauna from La Teoulere (Peyrehorade, Landes)]1
- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène1
- The psychrospheric coral fauna from the Lower Pliocene of northern Italy1
- Les Madréporaires miocènes du Maroc1
Each of the 8 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. 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
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No picture of Flabellum avicula 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 Flabellum avicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flabellum avicula 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.
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What may have been alongside itFlabellum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1838)