Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula

Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Pholadomya (Pholadomya)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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 66 of 86 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 20 of 86 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–191 Mya — about 4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 12 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 6 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 6 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 4 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 4 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 4 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 4 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 6 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 6 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya168.2 Mya202.2 Mya160.7 Mya

86 occurrences of Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula on record, most of them in the Early 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

86 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

12 formations

Lautaro — 29.11°S, 70.44°WLautaro — 28.57°S, 70.10°WLautaro — 28.66°S, 70.07°WAberhan Pliensbach — 33.47°S, 70.75°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°ESierra Santa Rosa — 30.72°N, 112.55°WTres Cruces — 30.88°S, 70.50°WAberhan Toarc — 33.47°S, 70.75°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WSierra de Santa Roas — 30.08°N, 111.67°WSão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WDogger — 54.41°N, 0.87°WAchdorf — 48.18°N, 8.76°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

336 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula, 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

17 references

Each of the 86 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. 5 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 (Pholadomya) fidicula

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1826)