Clionychia undata
No picture of Clionychia undata 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 Clionychia undata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CleionychiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 456.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Clionychia undata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician33%
- Silurian67%
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
5 formations
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group5
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
- Power Glen Formation1
- Frognerkilen - Nakholmen Formation1
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The named rock units Clionychia undata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clionychia undata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Clionychia undata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Chasmatopora5 sites
- Dalmanella5 sites
- Enterolasma5 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis5 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus5 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis5 sites
- Pterinea5 sites
- Atrypa reticularis4 sites
- Cytherina spinosa4 sites
- Dalmanites4 sites
- Homalonotus4 sites
- Mesotrypa4 sites
- Spirifer4 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta3 sites
- Craniops3 sites
- Dizygopleura3 sites
- Fenestella3 sites
- Modiolopsis3 sites
- Platyceras angulatum3 sites
- Platyceras niagarensis3 sites
- Rhinopora3 sites
- Rhipidomella3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Semicoscinium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Clionychia undata, 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
5 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York5
- Distribution and palaeoecology of Ordovician bivalves and gastropods from Girvan, SW Scotland1
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 11, Pelecypoda1
- Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Clionychia undata 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 Clionychia undata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clionychia undata 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 itCleionychia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1842)