Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte)

Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte)

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 54 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya73 Mya6 Mya

54 occurrences of Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

54 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

12 formations

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.60°N, 119.27°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.56°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.51°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.35°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.62°N, 120.15°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WMoreno — 37.27°N, 121.18°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.15°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WBrejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WSable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°EGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EBranden Clay — 57.27°N, 9.73°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EMerced — 37.19°N, 121.09°W

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The named rock units Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte), 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

17 references

Each of the 54 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. 5 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 content2

Picture of Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer von Waldheim 1835