Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii

Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii

Gautier, Emile Félix · CC BY 4.0 · 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 (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 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 170.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.2 Mya180.4 Mya193.4 Mya170.4 Mya

13 occurrences of Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii 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

13 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

5 formations

Rio Palomar — 41.29°N, 0.79°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°ECerro del Pez — 41.29°N, 0.79°WDogger — 54.42°N, 0.93°W

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The named rock units Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pholadomya (Pholadomya) voltzii, 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 13 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. 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) voltzii

Source
GBIF
Credit
Gautier, Emile Félix
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 (Pholadomya) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1840)