Palaeomunida defecta

Palaeomunida defecta

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeomunidaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Galatheidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.1 Mya33.9 Mya152 Mya21 Mya

11 occurrences of Palaeomunida defecta on record. 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

11 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

2 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°E

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The named rock units Palaeomunida defecta 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.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Palaeomunida defecta, 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 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Palaeomunida defecta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeomunida defecta 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 itPalaeomunida through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lorenthey 1902)