Clidiophora

Clidiophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PandoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pandoridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Pandoridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pandoridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya1.8 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Clidiophora on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

14 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

6 formations

Waccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WSt Mary's — 37.56°N, 76.78°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°W

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

Clidiophora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Clidiophora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Clidiophora, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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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Picture of Clidiophora

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)