Pinna (Pinna) opalina

Pinna (Pinna) opalina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Pinna (Pinna)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pinna
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinna
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinna
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

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 174.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya180.4 Mya193.4 Mya174.2 Mya

14 occurrences of Pinna (Pinna) opalina 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

14 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

Dogger — 54.42°N, 0.93°W

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The named rock units Pinna (Pinna) opalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinna (Pinna) opalina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pinna (Pinna) opalina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pinna (Pinna) opalina, 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 14 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 content2

Picture of Pinna (Pinna) opalina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pinna sp. · YPM:IP:YPM IP 008880

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1858