Carolia placunoides

Carolia placunoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaroliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carolia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Carolia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Carolia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 35 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

35 occurrences of Carolia placunoides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

35 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

9 formations

Qasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 30.17°EQasr El- Sagha — 29.58°N, 31.17°EMaadi — 29.94°N, 30.56°EMaadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EBirket Qarun — 29.32°N, 30.15°EBirket Qarun — 29.67°N, 30.60°EZallah — 28.83°N, 17.83°EZallah — 28.88°N, 18.87°EMokattam — 28.00°N, 30.75°EWadi Rayan — 29.67°N, 30.60°EWadi Tamet — 28.88°N, 18.87°EWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°E

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The named rock units Carolia placunoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carolia placunoides and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carolia placunoides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Carolia placunoides, 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

8 references

Each of the 35 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 Carolia placunoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carolia placunoides 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 itCarolia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cantraine 1838