Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei

Pholadomya protei (Brongniart, 1821), a relative of Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei — not Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei itself

Not Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei. This is Pholadomya protei (Brongniart, 1821), a relative — both are Pholadomyidae.

Edmond Pellat · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 28 of 67 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 37 of 67 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 14 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 13 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 12 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 11 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 8 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya83.6 Mya170 Mya70 Mya

67 occurrences of Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

67 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

19 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ENothe Grits — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EChelva — 41.00°N, 1.00°WTuotuohe — 33.33°N, 92.00°EKorallenoolith — 52.13°N, 10.02°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WAntalo — 13.62°N, 39.44°EDaua Limestone — 3.93°N, 41.21°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

593 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei, 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

24 references

Each of the 67 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Pholadomya protei (Brongniart, 1821)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Edmond Pellat
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itPholadomya (Bucardiomya) through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1821)