Colpomya

Colpomya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColpomyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 306 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOrdovician — about 35 of 47 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 47 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrences494–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–447 Mya — about 24 occurrences447–435 Mya — about 7 occurrences435–423 Mya — about 6 occurrences423–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468 Mya161.5 Mya494 Mya142 Mya

47 occurrences of Colpomya on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

47 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

26 formations

Lexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WNicolet River — 45.37°N, 73.44°WNicolet River — 45.66°N, 72.93°WNicolet River — 45.79°N, 72.86°WMadbi — 14.27°N, 48.56°EMadbi — 14.32°N, 48.45°EMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMulde — 57.53°N, 18.43°EStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WKennel Creek — 58.10°N, 135.39°WSuri — 26.43°S, 66.85°WLorraine — 46.21°N, 72.32°WLorraine — 43.69°N, 79.36°WNaifa — 14.31°N, 48.48°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°ECwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WTrapiche — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLexington Ls — 37.65°N, 84.77°WHemse Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EBurgsvik Beds — 57.05°N, 18.27°EOved Sandstone — 59.08°N, 12.93°EKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.93°WDecorah Shale — 44.50°N, 93.00°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WMolles — 28.83°S, 67.92°WBádenas — 40.78°N, 1.65°WKyrkås — 63.19°N, 14.73°EKagawong — 45.90°N, 82.25°W

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The named rock units Colpomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colpomya and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Colpomya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

659 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Colpomya, 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

22 references

Each of the 47 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Colpomya

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itColpomyidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893