Palaeoconcha

No picture of Palaeoconcha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeoconcha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 12 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya419.62 Mya473 Mya386 Mya

12 occurrences of Palaeoconcha on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

12 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

9 formations

Lexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WMaquoketa — 42.01°N, 91.64°WBrassfield — 38.79°N, 83.55°WLa Cantera — 31.00°S, 69.00°WLexington Ls — 37.65°N, 84.77°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WJigunsan — 37.19°N, 128.74°EDuwibong — 36.97°N, 127.22°EWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°W

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The named rock units Palaeoconcha 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.

Palaeoconcha and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeoconcha and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Palaeoconcha, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 Palaeoconcha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeoconcha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1889