Laternula

Laternula is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Laternulidae.

Laternula

MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020 · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LaternulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pandoroidea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Laternulidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pandoroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 73 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 73 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 73 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 73 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 6 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–143 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–101 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 25 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 9 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Laternula on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

73 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

35 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WRiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.80°ETres Hermanos — 33.88°N, 106.75°WTres Hermanos — 34.44°N, 107.47°WPigeon Point — 37.20°N, 122.40°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WPeedee — 33.76°N, 79.30°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°EAmaninskaya — 58.00°N, 158.20°EIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ERio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WTalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°ETamala Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.81°EAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°E

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The named rock units Laternula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laternula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Laternula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Laternula, 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

34 references

Each of the 73 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. 22 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 Laternula

Credit
MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Röding 1798