Othonella araguaiana
No picture of Othonella araguaiana 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 Othonella araguaiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OthonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Othonella araguaiana on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Corumbataí Formation · Passa Dois Group4
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The named rock units Othonella araguaiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Othonella araguaiana and its relatives
PermianWhere Othonella araguaiana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Pinzonella illusa4 sites
- Plesiocyprinella carinata4 sites
- Terraia aequilateralis4 sites
- Casterella gratiosa2 sites
- Cowperesia anceps2 sites
- Ferrazia cardinalis2 sites
- Holdhausiella elongata2 sites
- Jacquesia2 sites
- Roxoa corumbataiensis2 sites
- Cowperesia1 site
- Coxesia mezzalirai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Othonella araguaiana, 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- Othonella araguaiana (Bivalvia, Megadesmidae) from the Corumbataí Formation (Midlle Permian), eastern margin of the Paraná Basin: systematic, evolutionary and biostratigraphic significances2
- Lamelibrânquios permianos do Estado do Mato Grosso (Formação Estrada Nova)2
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Othonella araguaiana 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 Othonella araguaiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Othonella araguaiana 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 itOthonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mendes 1963