Goniomya literata

Goniomya literata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniomyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 31 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 31 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 23 of 31 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya143.1 Mya185.1 Mya136.1 Mya

31 occurrences of Goniomya literata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

31 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

15 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.60°N, 2.45°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.80°N, 2.28°WUpper Calcareous Grit — 53.98°N, 1.53°WLower Calcareous Grit — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WMiddle Calcareous Grit — 54.21°N, 0.29°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBrentskardhaugen — 77.02°N, 16.23°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°E

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The named rock units Goniomya literata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniomya literata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Goniomya literata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Goniomya literata, 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 31 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 Goniomya literata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Goniomya literata 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 itGoniomya through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1819)