Sanoarca grandis
No picture of Sanoarca grandis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sanoarca grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SanoarcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Arcidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arcidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
48 occurrences of Sanoarca grandis 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
48 occurrences- Late 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
- Woodbine Formation47
- Lewisville Formation · Woodbine Group1
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The named rock units Sanoarca grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sanoarca grandis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sanoarca grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Brachidontes26 sites
- Caryocorbula26 sites
- Voysa26 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus24 sites
- Geltena21 sites
- Ursirivus21 sites
- Protarca20 sites
- Fulpia19 sites
- Phelopteria dalli17 sites
- Solyma16 sites
- Anomia15 sites
- Pyrgulifera15 sites
- Cuspidaria12 sites
- Cymbophora12 sites
- Parmicorbula11 sites
- Natica10 sites
- Priscomactra10 sites
- Anatimya9 sites
- Pseudoptera9 sites
- Senis9 sites
- Cliona8 sites
- Gymnentome8 sites
- Euspira7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Sanoarca grandis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 48 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sanoarca grandis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sanoarca grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sanoarca grandis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSanoarca through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stephenson 1952)