Matheronia

Matheronia

Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
MatheroniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141 Mya119.57 Mya145.7 Mya112.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Matheronia on record, most of them in the Early 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

10 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

1 formation

Schrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°E

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The named rock units Matheronia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Matheronia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Matheronia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Matheronia, 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 10 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 Matheronia

Credit
Patafisik
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Matheronia 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 itMatheroniinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Munier-Chalmas 1873