Lithophaga carolinensis

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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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Lithophaga carolinensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

3 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

3 formations

Severn — 38.91°N, 76.85°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WHudspeth — 44.60°N, 120.20°W

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The named rock units Lithophaga carolinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lithophaga carolinensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lithophaga carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithophaga carolinensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Lithophaga carolinensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithophaga carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itLithophaga through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1875)