Indogrammatodon vancouverensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
16 occurrences of Indogrammatodon vancouverensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Ladd Formation3
- Pigeon Point Formation2
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group2
- Chatsworth Formation1
- El Piojo Formation1
- Uhalde Formation · Panoche Group1
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The named rock units Indogrammatodon vancouverensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Indogrammatodon vancouverensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Indogrammatodon vancouverensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii6 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana6 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa5 sites
- Biplica obliqua4 sites
- Turritella chicoensis4 sites
- Calva3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi3 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii3 sites
- Etea angulata3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) anae3 sites
- Opis (Hesperopis) triangulata3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Amphidonte2 sites
- Callistalox fragilis2 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians2 sites
- Crassatella conradiana2 sites
- Cymbophora stantoni2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Isocrinus2 sites
- Legumen ooides2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Lyriochlamys traskii2 sites
- Lysis suciensis2 sites
- Paraesa lens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Indogrammatodon vancouverensis, 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- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results3
- An unusual Late Cretaceous fauna from an oyster-rich interval in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California3
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Paleogeographic implications of molluscan assemblages in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Pigeon Point Formation, California1
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity1
- Mollusks of Latest Cretaceous and Paleocene Age, Lake Nacimiento, California1
- Late Cretaceous Mollusca of the Simi Hills: An Introduction1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
- Type Moreno formation and overlying Eocene strata on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California1
Each of the 16 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 Indogrammatodon vancouverensis
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Indogrammatodon vancouverensis 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 itGrammatodon (Indogrammatodon) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1858)