Pycnodonta vesicularis

Pycnodonta vesicularis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodontePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pycnodonte
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pycnodonte
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pycnodonte
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya66 Mya123 Mya60 Mya

10 occurrences of Pycnodonta vesicularis on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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

Holywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WMarnes de plage — 43.14°N, 0.95°EKallankurichchi — 11.14°N, 79.12°EChaume — 38.95°N, 0.38°WZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°E

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The named rock units Pycnodonta vesicularis 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.

Pycnodonta vesicularis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pycnodonta vesicularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pycnodonta vesicularis, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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

Media content1

Picture of Pycnodonta vesicularis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pycnodonta vesicularis 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 itPycnodonte through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1806)