Erodona

Erodona

jlsnaddon · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErodoninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbulidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 29 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Erodona on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

29 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

Headon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHeadon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WBarton Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°Wos — 50.70°N, 1.51°WChuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Erodona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erodona and its relatives

Eocene

Where Erodona and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

274 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Erodona, 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

8 references

Each of the 29 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 content1

Picture of Erodona

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

No 3D scan of Erodona was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itErodoninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1802