Cavilucina

Cavilucina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 190 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 32 of 73 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 32 of 73 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 73 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 73 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 9 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 16 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 31 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–6.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences192.9 Mya2.58 Mya203 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Cavilucina on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

73 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

Calcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EAberhan Pliensbach — 33.47°S, 70.75°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°EDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WCalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°EAberhan Toarc — 33.47°S, 70.75°WHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EBruxelles — 50.83°N, 4.33°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°EOolithe miliaire — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°EThies — 14.68°N, 17.20°WKincaid — 28.53°N, 100.23°W

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The named rock units Cavilucina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cavilucina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cavilucina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Cavilucina, 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 73 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 Cavilucina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLucininae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1887)