Notodonax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonacidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Donacidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Donacidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Donacidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
14 occurrences of Notodonax 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Chico Formation6
- Pigeon Point Formation2
- Khatiyah Formation1
- Mishrif Formation1
- Escondido Formation1
- Ewekoro Formation1
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The named rock units Notodonax 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.
Notodonax and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Notodonax and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
365 taxa- Califadesma elafium5 sites
- Cucullaea3 sites
- Yaadia branti3 sites
- Arctica2 sites
- Barbatia aegyptiaca2 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) taffi2 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Curvostrea heinzi2 sites
- Curvostrea isidis2 sites
- Cyclocardia2 sites
- Cymbophora stantoni2 sites
- Glossus2 sites
- Isognomon2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Linotrigonia2 sites
- Meretrix2 sites
- Mytilus2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pholadomya gigantea2 sites
- Pholadomya pedernalis2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Notodonax, 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
6 references- California Late Cretaceous donaciform bivalves8
- Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Bivalves from the Wasia Group, Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates2
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity1
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria1
Each of the 14 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 Notodonax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Notodonax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Notodonax was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDonacidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feruglio 1935