Praescabrotrigonia clavigera

Newsom, Charles · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- PraescabrotrigoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Praescabrotrigonia clavigera 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Denton Formation · Washita Group3
- Pawpaw Formation · Washita Group1
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The named rock units Praescabrotrigonia clavigera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Praescabrotrigonia clavigera and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Praescabrotrigonia clavigera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Peilinia quadriplicata4 sites
- Plicatula3 sites
- Gryphaea2 sites
- Asteroidea1 site
- Camptonectes virgatus1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cythere concentrica1 site
- Cythereis1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Cytheropteron1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Engonoceras1 site
- Gervillia solenoidea1 site
- Haplostiche1 site
- Holothuroidea1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Lima1 site
- Linuparus adkinsi1 site
- Micrabacia1 site
- Neithea1 site
- Paracypris1 site
- Paraisurus macrorhizus1 site
- Pecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Praescabrotrigonia clavigera, 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
2 references- A Paleoecologic Study of the Upper Denton Formation, Tarrant, Denton, and Cooke Counties, Texas3
- A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Praescabrotrigonia clavigera
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Newsom, Charles
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Praescabrotrigonia clavigera 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 itPraescabrotrigonia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cragin 1893)