Gryphaea cymbium

Gryphaea cymbium

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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 most 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 55 of 55 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 5 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 5 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 5 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 5 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 5 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 5 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 5 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 5 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

55 occurrences of Gryphaea cymbium 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

55 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

6 formations

Cape Stewart Beds — 70.44°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.47°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WKingak Shale — 69.65°N, 144.38°WPuesto Araya — 34.92°S, 69.77°WTres Esquinas — 34.92°S, 69.77°W

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The named rock units Gryphaea cymbium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea cymbium and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Gryphaea cymbium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Gryphaea cymbium, 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

6 references

Each of the 55 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

Picture of Gryphaea cymbium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1819