Lithophaga (Lithophaga)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LithophagaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithophaga
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Lithophaga
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Lithophaga
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 10 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 17 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEocene187–182 Mya — about 9 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182.9 Mya48.07 Mya187 Mya38 Mya

17 occurrences of Lithophaga (Lithophaga) on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

17 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

4 formations

Habo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WDelmar — 32.92°N, 117.26°W

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The named rock units Lithophaga (Lithophaga) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithophaga (Lithophaga) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lithophaga (Lithophaga) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Lithophaga (Lithophaga), 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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

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No picture of Lithophaga (Lithophaga) 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 Lithophaga (Lithophaga), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lithophaga (Lithophaga) 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 itLithophaga through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798