Gouldia

Gouldia

George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
GouldiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 310 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 310 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 310 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 310 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 310 occurrencesMiocene — about 204 of 310 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 310 occurrencesPleistocene — about 45 of 310 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–19 Mya — about 27 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 97 occurrences14–9.5 Mya — about 59 occurrences9.5–4.7 Mya — about 25 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 90 occurrences132.6 Mya11.7 ka142 Mya0 Mya

310 occurrences of Gouldia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

310 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

55 formations

Castilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.98°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.88°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WWaccamaw — 33.40°N, 79.25°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°W

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The named rock units Gouldia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 74 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gouldia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gouldia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Gouldia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

66 references

Each of the 310 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. 54 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 Gouldia

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gouldia 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 itGouldiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams 1847)