Chaenomya

Searched as Chaenomya laevenworthensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Chaenomya as the accepted name.

Chaenomya

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
ChaenomyinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Chaenomya on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Douglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°W

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The named rock units Chaenomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chaenomya and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Chaenomya and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Chaenomya, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Chaenomya

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

No 3D scan of Chaenomya was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itChaenomyinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864