Inoperna

Inoperna

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 146 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 211.18 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 29 of 249 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 65 of 249 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 63 of 249 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 45 of 249 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 249 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 249 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 249 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 249 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 15 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 12 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 57 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 3 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 14 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 48 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 7 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 33 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 6 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence205.7 Mya59.24 Mya214 Mya53 Mya

249 occurrences of Inoperna 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

249 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

60 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.17°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WLadd — 33.73°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WKossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.35°N, 57.45°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 20.25°N, 45.17°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.47°N, 9.48°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EBasilika — 78.11°N, 14.60°EBasilika — 78.07°N, 14.28°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EMiddle Inferior Oolite — 51.78°N, 2.18°W

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The named rock units Inoperna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Inoperna and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Inoperna and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,037 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 203 sites for Inoperna, 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

65 references

Each of the 249 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. 53 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 content1

Picture of Inoperna

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itMytilidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1873)