Grammatodon tripartitus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrammatodonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Grammatodon tripartitus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Grammatodon tripartitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grammatodon tripartitus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Grammatodon tripartitus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) subgeometrica2 sites
- Ceratomya concentrica2 sites
- Eonavicula minuta2 sites
- Fimbria lajoyei2 sites
- Homomya gibbosa2 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) bynei2 sites
- Lithophaga fabella2 sites
- Lopha costata2 sites
- Parallelodon hirsonensis2 sites
- Protocardia lingulata2 sites
- Protocardia stricklandi2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Anisocardia beaumonti1 site
- Astarte wiltoni1 site
- Camptonectes laminatus1 site
- Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona1 site
- Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) orbignyana1 site
- Corbula islipensis1 site
- Costigervillia quincarinata1 site
- Eocallista antiopa1 site
- Eonavicula gibbosa1 site
- Jurassicardium axonense1 site
- Leda lacryma1 site
- Lima (Plagiostoma) hellica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Grammatodon tripartitus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Grammatodon tripartitus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Grammatodon tripartitus 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 itGrammatodon through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1915