Heterodonta

Heteroconchia is a taxonomic infraclass of diverse bivalve molluscs, belonging to the subclass Autobranchia.

Heterodonta

Urby · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteroconchiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 477 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovician — about 134 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 12000 occurrencesDevonian — about 211 of 12000 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 190 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 403 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 33 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 61 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 344 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 793 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 574 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 686 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 543 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1397 of 12000 occurrencesPaleocene — about 904 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 2146 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 495 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 1469 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 767 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 771 of 12000 occurrences497–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 70 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 54 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 13 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 10 occurrences414–397 Mya — about 18 occurrences397–381 Mya — about 128 occurrences381–364 Mya — about 56 occurrences364–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–331 Mya — about 12 occurrences331–315 Mya — about 38 occurrences315–298 Mya — about 140 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 64 occurrences281–265 Mya — about 122 occurrences265–248 Mya — about 240 occurrences248–232 Mya — about 138 occurrences232–215 Mya — about 90 occurrences215–199 Mya — about 305 occurrences199–182 Mya — about 626 occurrences182–166 Mya — about 335 occurrences166–149 Mya — about 713 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 393 occurrences132–116 Mya — about 214 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 211 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 229 occurrences83–66 Mya — about 1120 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 1263 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 1856 occurrences33–17 Mya — about 964 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 2570 occurrences477.1 Mya11.7 ka497 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Heterodonta on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 1401 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 35.01°N, 90.79°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.11°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 88.16°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.00°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.44°N, 89.11°WCook Mountain — 32.50°N, 93.05°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.96°N, 95.27°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 29.13°N, 98.16°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 93.09°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 96.14°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 31.53°N, 94.11°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.88°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 32.43°N, 96.22°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 98.98°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 29.75°N, 97.77°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 32.57°N, 96.17°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 29.16°N, 99.57°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.28°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 28.53°N, 100.23°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 28.74°N, 100.35°WKincaid — 28.44°N, 100.25°WKincaid — 29.39°N, 99.06°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 31.41°N, 96.57°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 29.75°N, 97.87°WKincaid — 29.57°N, 97.96°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.69°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 31.55°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 88.04°WGosport Sand — 31.73°N, 87.89°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.32°WGosport Sand — 35.11°N, 77.04°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 32.25°N, 96.29°WCorsicana Marl — 32.25°N, 96.29°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.57°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.59°N, 98.08°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.42°N, 98.43°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.60°N, 87.55°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.91°N, 88.51°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.40°N, 85.13°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 84.70°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.57°N, 93.48°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWeches — 32.17°N, 88.83°WWeches — 32.00°N, 89.00°WWeches — 32.56°N, 93.52°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.60°N, 96.61°WWeches — 31.32°N, 95.46°WWeches — 30.50°N, 96.63°WWeches — 31.65°N, 95.07°WWeches — 31.54°N, 95.23°WWeches — 31.57°N, 93.48°WWeches — 31.92°N, 92.64°WWeches — 31.60°N, 94.66°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.82°WWeches — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WGraham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.03°N, 98.65°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ELadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WLadd — 33.74°N, 117.64°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.50°N, 79.11°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.07°N, 78.27°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WWaccamaw — 33.40°N, 79.25°WTuscahoma — 31.70°N, 84.85°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.06°N, 88.11°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WChoptank — 38.46°N, 76.47°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.77°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.50°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°W

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The named rock units Heterodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,377 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,295 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,443 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,082 sites for Heterodonta, and this reads 240 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

at least 1,428 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,416 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Heterodonta

Credit
Urby
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
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XRay scan

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In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Ophthalmotilapia heterodonta · unibas:ic:MUA4

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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