Sanguinolites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SanguinolitinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 170 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
151 occurrences of Sanguinolites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
151 occurrences- Silurian1%
- Devonian18%
- Carboniferous52%
- Permian29%
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
83 formations
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group6
- Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band Formation5
- Reynolds Limestone Formation · Mauch Chunk Group5
- Zhesi Formation5
- Stainmore Formation · Yoredale Group5
- Redoak Hollow Formation4
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The named rock units Sanguinolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sanguinolites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Sanguinolites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
2,055 taxa- Aviculopecten30 sites
- Schizodus27 sites
- Gastropoda24 sites
- Edmondia21 sites
- Nuculopsis21 sites
- Crinoidea20 sites
- Palaeoneilo19 sites
- Parallelodon19 sites
- Fenestella17 sites
- Actinopteria12 sites
- Lingula12 sites
- Ostracoda12 sites
- Cypricardella11 sites
- Orbiculoidea11 sites
- Bivalvia10 sites
- Chonetes10 sites
- Dielasma10 sites
- Euchondria10 sites
- Myalina10 sites
- Posidonia10 sites
- Spirifer10 sites
- Streblochondria10 sites
- Streblopteria10 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Sanguinolites, 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
78 references- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected9
- Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Mauch Chunk Group (Mississippian, Chesterian) of northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania7
- The Serpukhovian and Bashkirian (Carboniferous, Namurian and basal Westphalian) faunas of northern England6
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna6
- Three new early Namurian (E1c-E2a) marine bands in central and northern England, UK, and their bearing on correlations with the Askrigg Block5
- A biofacies analysis of the Gastrioceras cumbriense marine band (Namurian) of the central Pennines5
- The Permian of Mongolia5
- Lower Devonian pelecypods from southeastern Australia4
- Late Mississippian fauna from the Redoak Hollow Formation of southern Oklahoma. Part III. Pelecypoda4
- Late Bashkirian ammonoids from the Mospyne Formation of the Donets Basin, Ukraine3
- Pennsylvanian Heteroconchia (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil3
- Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)3
Each of the 151 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. 66 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
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Picture of Sanguinolites
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No 3D scan of Sanguinolites 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 itSanguinolitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1844