Gryphaea bilobata
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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 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
19 occurrences of Gryphaea bilobata 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
19 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
4 formations
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group15
- Middle Inferior Oolite Formation1
- Matuo Formation1
- Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. Formation · Shaqra Group1
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The named rock units Gryphaea bilobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gryphaea bilobata and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Gryphaea bilobata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Ceratomya excentrica14 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea13 sites
- Ceratomyopsis arabica13 sites
- Chlamys curvivarians13 sites
- Gryphaea costellata13 sites
- Homomya gibbosa13 sites
- Inoperna13 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis13 sites
- Pholadomya lirata13 sites
- Trichites13 sites
- Actinostreon marshi12 sites
- Arcomytilus12 sites
- Ceratomya concentrica12 sites
- Chlamys12 sites
- Eligmus12 sites
- Entolium (Entolium) corneolum12 sites
- Fimbria lajoyei12 sites
- Mactromya12 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus12 sites
- Modiolus bipartitus12 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana12 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei12 sites
- Pseudisocardia macfadyeni12 sites
- Camptonectes laminatus11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Gryphaea bilobata, 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
4 references- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale16
- Jurassic Ostreoida (Bivalvia) from China (Tanggula Mountains, Quinghai-Xizang Plateau) and their paleobiogeographic context1
- Unpublished data1
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires1
Each of the 19 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Gryphaea bilobata 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 Gryphaea bilobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGryphaea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1835