Goniomya vespera
No picture of Goniomya vespera 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 Goniomya vespera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Goniomya vespera on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Goniomya vespera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Goniomya vespera and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Goniomya vespera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Periplomya trinitensis2 sites
- Pholadomya altumbonata2 sites
- Lytoceras aulaeum1 site
- Nanonavis breweriana1 site
- Panopea1 site
- Periplomya reddingensis1 site
- Pholadomya clementina1 site
- Pholadomya distorta1 site
- Phyllopachyceras infundibulum1 site
- Phyllopachyceras sextonae1 site
- Pinna pontica1 site
- Pleuromya papyracea1 site
- Simbirskites broadi1 site
- Simbirskites lecontei1 site
- Venus collinium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Goniomya vespera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California1
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Goniomya vespera 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 Goniomya vespera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniomya vespera 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938