Pholadomya distorta

No picture of Pholadomya distorta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pholadomya distorta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadomyaPBDB
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 most 54 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144 Mya89 Mya

2 occurrences of Pholadomya distorta on record, most of them in the Early 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

2 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

1 formation

Budden Canyon — 40.49°N, 122.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.60°N, 122.91°W

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

Pholadomya distorta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pholadomya distorta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pholadomya distorta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Pholadomya distorta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pholadomya distorta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pholadomya distorta 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 itPholadomya through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938