Clavagella armata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClavagellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
13 occurrences of Clavagella armata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
7 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation4
- Mount Laurel Sand Formation2
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group2
- Merchantville Formation · Matawan Group2
- Marshalltown Formation1
- Providence Formation1
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The named rock units Clavagella armata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clavagella armata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Clavagella armata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
561 taxa- Anomia argentaria11 sites
- Veniella conradi11 sites
- Turritella9 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Cliona8 sites
- Cyprimeria8 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata8 sites
- Linearis8 sites
- Liopistha protexta8 sites
- Paranomia scabra8 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata8 sites
- Amaurellina stephensoni7 sites
- Anchura7 sites
- Arca7 sites
- Cardium7 sites
- Crassatella vadosa7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Turritella vertebroides7 sites
- Vetericardiella7 sites
- Agerostrea falcata6 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta6 sites
- Drilluta6 sites
- Etea6 sites
- Eutrephoceras dekayi6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Clavagella armata, 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
9 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain4
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Upper Cretaceous macroinvertebrate faunas of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain1
- Local invertebrate assemblages in the Upper Cretaceous Marshallton Formation along the valley of Oldmans Creek in southern New Jersey1
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf1
- Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey and Delaware1
- Occurrence of Clavagella armata Morton in Perry County, Alabama1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Clavagella armata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Clavagella armata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clavagella armata 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 itClavagella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morton 1833