Pexidella marmorea
No picture of Pexidella marmorea 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 Pexidella marmorea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PexidellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Pexidella marmorea on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pexidella marmorea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pexidella marmorea and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Pexidella marmorea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Volirhynchia projectifrons7 sites
- Mentzelia ptychitiphila5 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis4 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus4 sites
- Schwagerispira mojsisovicsi4 sites
- Trematoceras elegans4 sites
- Daonella (Arzelella) tyrolensis3 sites
- Daonella (Pichlerella) pichleri3 sites
- Daonella lommeli3 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus3 sites
- Gymnites incultus3 sites
- Leiophyllites suessi3 sites
- Norella refractifrons3 sites
- Norella retractifrons3 sites
- Proarcestes bramantei3 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae2 sites
- Arthaberites alexandrae2 sites
- Atractites boeckhi2 sites
- Atractites obeliscus2 sites
- Atractites secundus2 sites
- Daonella (Arzelella) bulogensis2 sites
- Daonella (Arzelella) indica2 sites
- Discoptychites pauli2 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pexidella marmorea, 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
6 references- Brachiopoden der alpinen Trias6
- Triassic brachiopods of Romania2
- Eine Fauna des Wettersteinkalkes bei Innsbruck1
- Die Trias von Bithynien (Anatolien)1
- Illustrazione della fauna triasica di Valdepena (Cadore) [Illustration of the Triassic fauna of Valdepena (Cadore)]1
- Geologische und palaeontologische Studien uber die Marmolata1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pexidella marmorea 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 Pexidella marmorea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pexidella marmorea 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 itPexidella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1890)