Gryphaea (Catinula)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphaeaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 25 of 44 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 44 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 44 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 44 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 14 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 9 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 9 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya121.4 Mya194 Mya112 Mya

44 occurrences of Gryphaea (Catinula) on record, most of them in the Early 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

44 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

8 formations

Chari — 23.30°N, 69.97°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WOshima — 39.00°N, 141.50°ETanohata — 40.00°N, 141.83°ESão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°W

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The named rock units Gryphaea (Catinula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea (Catinula) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Gryphaea (Catinula) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Gryphaea (Catinula), 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

10 references

Each of the 44 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

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No picture of Gryphaea (Catinula) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Gryphaea (Catinula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gryphaea (Catinula) 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 itGryphaea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.