Pulvinites

Pulvinites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PulvinitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 29 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 29 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 29 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences196–191 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–181 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences184.2 Mya59.24 Mya196 Mya53 Mya

29 occurrences of Pulvinites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

29 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

9 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.74°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WPuchenque — 35.10°S, 70.12°WPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EAquia — 38.33°N, 77.27°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°W

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The named rock units Pulvinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pulvinites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pulvinites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

832 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pulvinites, 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

13 references

Each of the 29 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. 1 further reference is 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 Pulvinites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pulvinites 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 itPulvinitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1824