Glossites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 52 occurrencesDevonian — about 49 of 52 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 52 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 52 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 52 occurrences428–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–402 Mya — about 5 occurrences402–393 Mya — about 5 occurrences393–385 Mya — about 18 occurrences385–376 Mya — about 14 occurrences376–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–359 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences359–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–324 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences324–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419.62 Mya237 Mya428 Mya170 Mya

52 occurrences of Glossites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

52 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

22 formations

Skaneateles — 42.92°N, 75.93°WMcIvor — 37.05°S, 144.83°EMcIvor — 37.00°S, 144.00°EMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WOuray — 37.25°N, 108.75°WPella — 41.33°N, 92.38°WTalacasto — 30.00°S, 69.00°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EHorlick — 84.75°S, 115.00°WCano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WBolitho Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAdam Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAlexander Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°ECabanin Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EHuoi Loi — 18.75°N, 105.75°ETully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WNocedo — 42.82°N, 5.22°WYulongsi — 25.45°N, 103.77°ETiaomajian — 27.75°N, 111.75°E

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The named rock units Glossites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Glossites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Glossites, 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

23 references

Each of the 52 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. 11 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 Glossites

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Licence
CC0
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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What may have been alongside itModiomorphidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1885