Osteomya

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadomyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 147 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous250–245 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences245–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 6 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 6 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences241.464 Mya93.9 Mya250 Mya87 Mya

27 occurrences of Osteomya on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

27 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

17 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WMatuo — 33.33°N, 92.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKaladongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKhadir — 23.50°N, 70.50°EPatcham — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKlo Tho — 15.98°N, 98.73°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°EBeiya — 27.46°N, 100.96°ELeikoupo — 26.58°N, 103.49°ESierra de Santa Rosa — 30.71°N, 112.55°WAzilé — 0.42°N, 9.46°E

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The named rock units Osteomya 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.

Osteomya and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Osteomya and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Osteomya, 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

16 references

Each of the 27 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Osteomya 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 itPholadomyidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moesch 1874