Pleuromya galathea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleuromyaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 184.2 Mya.
16 occurrences of Pleuromya galathea 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
16 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
6 formations
- Almonacid de la Cuba Formation6
- Blue Lias Formation · Lias Group2
- Murray Ridge Formation · Bug Creek Group1
- Rio Palomar Formation1
- Cerro del Pez Formation1
- Saltrio Formation · Calcari Selciferi Lombardi Group1
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The named rock units Pleuromya galathea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleuromya galathea and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pleuromya galathea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Mactromya cardioides5 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya)4 sites
- Entolium3 sites
- Gryphaea3 sites
- Harpax3 sites
- Mesomiltha3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) ambigua3 sites
- Plagiostoma3 sites
- Amusium2 sites
- Arcomya2 sites
- Bourguetia deshayesea2 sites
- Cardinia2 sites
- Cardinia similis2 sites
- Cercomya2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Chlamys textoria2 sites
- Chondrocoenia reptans2 sites
- Coelostylina2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Ctenostreon2 sites
- Diademopsis2 sites
- Dicroloma2 sites
- Gervillia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pleuromya galathea, 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
6 references- Bivalvos del Pliensbachiense en la Seccion de Almonacid de la Cuba (Cordillera Iberica, Espana)8
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata2
- A sedimentary and faunal study of the Blue Lias of Dorset and Glamorgan2
- Etude géologique et paléontologique des environs de St-Ambroix (Gard). Première partie (Houiller, Trias, Infralias)2
- Hettangian through Aalenian (Jurassic) guide fossils and biostratigraphy, Northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories1
- I fossili del Lias inferiore di Saltrio in Lombardia1
Each of the 16 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
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No picture of Pleuromya galathea was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Pleuromya galathea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleuromya galathea 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 itPleuromya through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1842