Septimyalina perattenuata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeptimyalinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
13 occurrences of Septimyalina perattenuata 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
13 occurrences- Carboniferous54%
- Permian46%
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
8 formations
- Piauí Formation4
- Stotler Limestone Formation · Wabaunsee Group1
- Imo Formation1
- Clyde Formation1
- Admiral Formation1
- Stranger Formation · Douglas Group1
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The named rock units Septimyalina perattenuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Septimyalina perattenuata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Septimyalina perattenuata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Aviculopecten5 sites
- Caneyella3 sites
- Etheripecten trichotomus3 sites
- Girtopinna peracuta3 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri3 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens3 sites
- Myalina3 sites
- Myalina permiana3 sites
- Parallelodon3 sites
- Pindorama nordestina3 sites
- Astartella concentrica2 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Liroceras globulare2 sites
- Meekopinna americana2 sites
- Murchisonia2 sites
- Naticopsis remex2 sites
- Permophorus2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Alula squamulifera1 site
- Amphiscapha (Cylicioscapha) texana1 site
- Amphiscapha intermedius1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Anomalodesmata1 site
- Anthracoceras paucilobum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Septimyalina perattenuata, 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- The Texan Permian and its Mesozoic types of fossils3
- Pennsylvannian pteriomorphian bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil2
- Pennsylvanian Pteriomorphian Bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil2
- Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Imo Formation (Mississippian, Chesterian) of North-Central Arkansas1
- Acrothoracican Barnacles in Paleozoic Myalinids1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas1
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska1
- Invertebrate paleontology1
- On some invertebrate fossils from the Lykins formation of eastern Colorado1
Each of the 13 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 Septimyalina perattenuata
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No 3D scan of Septimyalina perattenuata 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 itSeptimyalina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1858)