Matsumotoa

No picture of Matsumotoa 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 Matsumotoa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NoetiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arcidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arcidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Arcidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya93.9 Mya113.7 Mya89.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Matsumotoa 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

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

Enokuchi — 32.30°N, 130.30°EEboshi — 32.32°N, 130.35°EEboshi — 32.34°N, 130.36°ENagase — 33.75°N, 133.97°EKarakizaki — 32.32°N, 130.33°E

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The named rock units Matsumotoa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Matsumotoa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Matsumotoa, 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 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

Media content0

No picture of Matsumotoa 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 Matsumotoa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Matsumotoa 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNoetiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Okada 1958