Gryphaea gigantea

No picture of Gryphaea gigantea 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 gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 21 of 21 occurrencesEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193.4 Mya183.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Gryphaea gigantea 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

21 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

4 formations

Ozirovo — 42.86°N, 23.25°EOzirovo — 42.77°N, 24.71°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°EOzirovo — 43.03°N, 23.23°EOzirovo — 43.06°N, 23.14°EOzirovo — 43.05°N, 23.03°ECleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WScalpa Sandstone — 57.38°N, 6.00°WAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°E

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The named rock units Gryphaea gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea gigantea and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Gryphaea gigantea, 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

8 references

Each of the 21 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
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No picture of Gryphaea gigantea 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 gigantea, 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 Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1823