Posidonotis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PosidoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Posidoniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 57 of 57 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 3 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 3 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 3 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 3 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 3 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 3 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 6 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192.9 Mya184.2 Mya200 Mya174.2 Mya

57 occurrences of Posidonotis 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

57 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

El Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WLos Molles — 39.38°S, 70.42°WNishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EInklin — 59.33°N, 133.72°WMontandón — 25.89°S, 69.18°W

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The named rock units Posidonotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Posidonotis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Posidonotis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Posidonotis, 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

10 references

Each of the 57 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Posidonotis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Posidonotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Posidonotis 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 itPosidoniidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Losacco 1942