Claraia

Claraia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ClaraiiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 106 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Permian — about 34 of 1185 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1126 of 1185 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 1185 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 1185 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1185 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1185 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 1185 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 9 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 1097 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 51 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 11 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–156 Mya — about 6 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences264.28 Mya157.9 Mya269 Mya153 Mya

1,185 occurrences of Claraia on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

1,185 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

83 formations

Daye — 30.16°N, 115.14°EDaye — 26.61°N, 107.22°EDaye — 29.45°N, 111.06°EDaye — 30.30°N, 106.85°EDaye — 32.99°N, 107.92°EDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°EDaye — 29.71°N, 113.93°EDaye — 26.67°N, 106.23°EDaye — 26.58°N, 106.62°EDaye — 26.54°N, 106.68°EDaye — 25.59°N, 106.65°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.67°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EWordie Creek — 73.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 71.73°N, 22.87°WWordie Creek — 71.73°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 71.68°N, 22.75°WWordie Creek — 71.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 72.41°N, 23.49°WWordie Creek — 72.07°N, 23.75°WWordie Creek — 72.06°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 72.18°N, 24.02°WWordie Creek — 71.70°N, 22.62°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WWordie Creek — 71.60°N, 22.70°WWordie Creek — 71.60°N, 22.40°WFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EFeixianguan — 32.65°N, 105.88°EFeixianguan — 28.10°N, 105.04°EFeixianguan — 29.91°N, 106.52°EFeixianguan — 27.43°N, 104.87°EFeixianguan — 27.45°N, 104.90°EFeixianguan — 32.08°N, 105.09°EFeixianguan — 26.25°N, 105.95°EFeixianguan — 29.80°N, 107.10°EFeixianguan — 29.90°N, 106.33°EFeixianguan — 26.20°N, 104.10°EFeixianguan — 26.15°N, 105.29°EFeixianguan — 26.03°N, 105.10°EFeixianguan — 25.94°N, 104.50°EFeixianguan — 28.96°N, 106.92°EFeixianguan — 27.46°N, 107.14°EFeixianguan — 29.49°N, 106.40°EFeixianguan — 30.30°N, 109.50°EFeixianguan — 28.31°N, 105.32°EFeixianguan — 32.19°N, 105.27°EFeixianguan — 32.95°N, 107.82°EFeixianguan — 32.62°N, 105.86°EFeixianguan — 30.13°N, 106.45°EFeixianguan — 28.91°N, 106.89°EFeixianguan — 30.09°N, 106.64°EFeixianguan — 24.94°N, 104.69°EFeixianguan — 28.01°N, 104.68°EFeixianguan — 26.02°N, 104.67°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.28°N, 11.52°EWerfen — 46.30°N, 11.80°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.70°EWerfen — 46.65°N, 11.75°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.61°EWerfen — 46.53°N, 11.56°EWerfen — 46.58°N, 11.72°EYelang — 26.14°N, 105.28°EYelang — 27.70°N, 106.90°EYelang — 26.05°N, 105.78°EYelang — 29.49°N, 106.40°ELuolou — 22.27°N, 107.69°ELuolou — 24.58°N, 106.89°ELuolou — 23.77°N, 108.87°ELuolou — 24.96°N, 106.65°ELuolou — 24.43°N, 107.37°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°ELuolou — 24.81°N, 106.55°ELuolou — 24.40°N, 106.30°ELuolou — 23.70°N, 109.32°EYinkeng — 30.87°N, 120.10°EYinkeng — 30.92°N, 119.99°EYinkeng — 31.08°N, 119.71°EYinkeng — 31.64°N, 117.85°EYinkeng — 31.00°N, 120.00°EElikah — 30.89°N, 53.21°EElikah — 38.94°N, 45.51°EMajiaoling — 23.50°N, 107.55°EMajiaoling — 22.42°N, 107.70°EMajiaoling — 23.47°N, 107.02°EMajiaoling — 23.60°N, 109.28°EDinwoody — 44.68°N, 112.79°WDinwoody — 41.25°N, 114.33°WDinwoody — 44.76°N, 112.30°WDinwoody — 43.57°N, 110.73°WDinwoody — 43.29°N, 109.88°WDinwoody — 43.63°N, 110.56°WDinwoody — 42.70°N, 108.56°WDinwoody — 43.24°N, 110.76°WDinwoody — 43.26°N, 109.32°WDinwoody — 45.27°N, 112.79°WDinwoody — 42.32°N, 111.25°WDinwoody — 42.22°N, 111.45°WDinwoody — 42.67°N, 108.68°WDinwoody — 45.09°N, 110.79°WBódvaszilas Sandstone — 48.48°N, 20.69°EKarabaglyar — 39.56°N, 45.21°EKarabaglyar — 38.98°N, 45.53°EKarabaglyar — 39.45°N, 45.23°EKarabaglyar — 39.53°N, 45.37°EKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EQinglong — 31.00°N, 120.00°EQinglong — 30.45°N, 117.54°EKashkaechkinskaya — 38.35°N, 73.07°EKashkaechkinskaya — 38.25°N, 73.30°EKashkaechkinskaya — 38.40°N, 73.82°EKarabaglyar — 39.54°N, 45.43°EKarabaglyar — 39.84°N, 45.05°EKarabaglyar — 39.95°N, 44.88°EVardebukta — 78.09°N, 13.84°EVardebukta — 77.62°N, 14.98°EVardebukta — 78.50°N, 22.00°EXikou — 26.05°N, 117.20°EXikou — 25.26°N, 117.17°EPhrae That — 18.70°N, 99.89°EKanglu — 33.60°N, 86.80°EXimatang — 23.98°N, 104.75°EXimatang — 24.00°N, 104.20°EXimatang — 24.02°N, 103.86°EDem'yanovskaya — 44.31°N, 44.20°EDem'yanovskaya — 44.90°N, 45.32°EDem'yanovskaya — 45.15°N, 45.17°EServino — 45.98°N, 9.42°EShaiwa — 25.85°N, 105.80°EShaiwa — 25.10°N, 106.15°EShaiwa — 25.61°N, 106.15°E

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The named rock units Claraia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 74 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Claraia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Claraia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

590 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 791 sites for Claraia, and this reads 240 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

126 references

Each of the 1,185 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. 114 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 content2

Picture of Claraia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itClaraiini through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1901)