Jurassicorbula

Jurassicorbula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 180.4 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 79 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 79 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 77 of 79 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 10 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 13 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 15 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 15 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 7 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 6 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180.4 Mya149.2 Mya185 Mya142.3 Mya

79 occurrences of Jurassicorbula on record, most of them in the Late 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

79 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

7 formations

Alcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WSobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WLourinhã — 39.10°N, 9.27°WAlcobaça — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaça — 39.52°N, 9.13°WCabacos — 39.60°N, 8.78°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WYeba — 29.30°N, 92.20°E

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The named rock units Jurassicorbula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jurassicorbula and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Jurassicorbula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Jurassicorbula, 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

9 references

Each of the 79 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 Jurassicorbula

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.