Monotis inaequivalvis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonotisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Monotidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Monotis inaequivalvis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Pardonet Formation · Schooler Creek Group1
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The named rock units Monotis inaequivalvis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monotis inaequivalvis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Monotis inaequivalvis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Cedroxylon1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Gryphaea arcuataeformis1 site
- Helictites decorus1 site
- Meleagrinella antiqua1 site
- Monotis (Entomonotis) callazonensis1 site
- Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica1 site
- Monotis (Entomonotis) pachypleura1 site
- Monotis (Eomonotis) jakutica1 site
- Monotis (Monotis) hoernesi1 site
- Monotis (Pacimonotis) subcircularis1 site
- Monotis salinaria1 site
- Monotis scutiformis1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Oxytoma kiparisovae1 site
- Pseudomonotis ochotica1 site
- Schafhaeutlia mellingi1 site
- Steinmannites1 site
- Sympolycyclus kellyi1 site
- Unionites griesbachi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Monotis inaequivalvis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Succession and Variation of Monotis and the Associated Fauna in the Norian Pine River Bridge Section, British Columbia (Triassic, Pelecypoda)1
- De stratigraphie van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie. 19. Mesozoikum1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Monotis inaequivalvis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Monotis inaequivalvis 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 itMonotis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1930