Lithiotis problematica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithiotisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Lithiotis
- Life habit
- epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Lithiotis
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithiotis
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Lithiotis problematica 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
8 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
4 formations
- Robertson Formation · Mowich Group2
- Calcari Grigi Formation2
- Dunlap Formation1
- Thompson Formation1
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The named rock units Lithiotis problematica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithiotis problematica and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Lithiotis problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Nerinea6 sites
- Astarte3 sites
- Haurania3 sites
- Orbitopsella3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Terebratulidae3 sites
- Cardinia2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Frondicularia2 sites
- Involutina2 sites
- Lituosepta2 sites
- Lychnothyris rotzoana2 sites
- Mayncina2 sites
- Meleagrinella2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Opisoma2 sites
- Opisoma excavatum2 sites
- Oppelismilia2 sites
- Palaeodasycladus2 sites
- Palaeodasycladus mediterraneus2 sites
- Pleuromya2 sites
- Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera2 sites
- Trigonia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lithiotis problematica, 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
4 references- Dissecting "Lithiotis" Bivalves: Implications for the Early Jurassic Reef Eclipse5
- Large epifaunal bivalves from Mesozoic buildups of Western North America1
- Lower Jurassic beds with bivalves in south Slovenia (Spodnjejurske plasti s školjkami v južni Sloveniji)1
- Zur Kenntnis des Juras der Insel Timor: sowie des Aucellen-Horizontes von Seran und Buru1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Lithiotis problematica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithiotis problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lithiotis problematica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLithiotis through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gümbel 1871