Whiteavesia

Whiteavesia is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve mollusks from the Late Ordovician of North and South America.

No picture of Whiteavesia 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 Whiteavesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 24 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 24 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457.2 Mya445.2 Mya463.8 Mya442.6 Mya

24 occurrences of Whiteavesia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

24 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

15 formations

Lexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.21°N, 84.89°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKyrkås — 63.19°N, 14.73°EAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°W

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The named rock units Whiteavesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Whiteavesia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Whiteavesia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

598 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Whiteavesia, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Whiteavesia 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 Whiteavesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Whiteavesia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itModiomorphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893