Osteomya dilata

Osteomya dilata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OsteomyaPBDB
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 18 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 18 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192.9 Mya165.3 Mya202.2 Mya160.7 Mya

18 occurrences of Osteomya dilata on record, most of them in the Early 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

18 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

11 formations

Aberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WMatuo — 33.33°N, 92.00°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°ESierra de Santa Rosa — 30.71°N, 112.55°W

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The named rock units Osteomya dilata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osteomya dilata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Osteomya dilata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Osteomya dilata, 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

10 references

Each of the 18 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 Osteomya dilata

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Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Osteomya dilata 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.

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What may have been alongside itOsteomya through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1829)