Slava

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SlavidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
28 occurrences of Slava on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
28 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
8 formations
- Kopanina Formation5
- Fluminimaggiore Formation5
- Elton Beds Formation2
- Motol Formation2
- Cape Phillips Formation1
- Coalbrookdale Formation1
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The named rock units Slava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Slava and its relatives
SilurianWhere Slava and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
229 taxa- Cardiola10 sites
- Butovicella migrans9 sites
- Bivalvia8 sites
- Dualina8 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Spanila7 sites
- Cephalopoda6 sites
- Graptolithina5 sites
- Isiola5 sites
- Maminka5 sites
- Mila4 sites
- Modiolopsis4 sites
- Pachytheca4 sites
- Patrocardia4 sites
- Praeostrea bohemica4 sites
- Prototaxites4 sites
- Septatrypa4 sites
- Slavinka4 sites
- Aegiria3 sites
- Bohemograptus bohemicus3 sites
- Cyrtia3 sites
- Gracianella3 sites
- Manulicula3 sites
- Monograptus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Slava, 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
12 references- Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies8
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia6
- Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from south-western Sardinia5
- A new bivalve community from the lower Ludlow of the Prague Basin (Perunica, Bohemia)1
- New Silurian nautiloids Phragmoceras Broderip, 1839, and Tubiferoceras Hedström, 1917, from the Prague Basin (Bohemia)1
- Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) Bivalves from Spain1
- Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region1
- A Bohemian-type Silurian (Wenlock) pelecypod faunule from arctic Canada1
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland1
- Ecology of a Late Silurian fauna of graptolites and associated organisms1
- Correlation of the African Silurian rocks1
- Facies and faunas at the Wenlock/Ludlow boundary of Wenlock Edge, Shropshire1
Each of the 28 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
Media content1

Picture of Slava
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Slava 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. Barrande 1881