Phelopteria gravida

No picture of Phelopteria gravida 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 Phelopteria gravida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhelopteriaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106.8 Mya89.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Phelopteria gravida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

17 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

4 formations

Abu Qada — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EGalala — 29.27°N, 34.72°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°E

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The named rock units Phelopteria gravida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phelopteria gravida and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Phelopteria gravida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Phelopteria gravida, 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

3 references

Each of the 17 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 Phelopteria gravida 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 Phelopteria gravida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phelopteria gravida 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 itPhelopteria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquand 1862)