Elegantinia elegans

No picture of Elegantinia elegans 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 Elegantinia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 42 of 43 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences247 Mya241.464 Mya251.3 Mya236.5 Mya

43 occurrences of Elegantinia elegans on record, most of them in the Middle 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

43 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

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°EPhra That — 18.25°N, 100.00°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°ECaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°E

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The named rock units Elegantinia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elegantinia elegans and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Elegantinia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

486 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Elegantinia elegans, 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

12 references

Each of the 43 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 Elegantinia elegans 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 Elegantinia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Elegantinia elegans 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 itElegantinia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunker 1849)