Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa

Searched as Plicatula spinosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa as the accepted name.

Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa

Jean.claude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
Plicatula (Harpax)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 182.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 154 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 154 of 154 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 154 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 6 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 6 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 6 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 6 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 6 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 6 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 6 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 6 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 57 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 38 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya182.9 Mya201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

154 occurrences of Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa 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

154 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

15 formations

São Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTurmiel — 41.05°N, 2.03°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WOzirovo — 43.03°N, 23.23°EOzirovo — 43.06°N, 23.14°EOzirovo — 43.05°N, 23.03°ELemede — 40.11°N, 8.77°WSao Giao — 40.11°N, 8.77°WAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°EAmaltheus Clay — 52.07°N, 10.85°EUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSedrina Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

179 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa, 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

20 references

Each of the 154 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. 8 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 Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa

Credit
Jean.claude
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa 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 itPlicatula (Harpax) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1819