Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona

Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona

Fischer, Jean-Claude · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Cavilucina (Mesomiltha)PBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 32 of 40 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 40 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192.9 Mya161.5 Mya200.4 Mya153.9 Mya

40 occurrences of Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona 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

40 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

4 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 — 49.60°N, 4.80°EAberhan Pliensbach — 33.47°S, 70.75°WAberhan Toarc — 33.47°S, 70.75°WHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°E

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The named rock units Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona 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 (Mesomiltha) bellona and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona, 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

3 references

Each of the 40 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fischer, Jean-Claude
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itCavilucina (Mesomiltha) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850