Sowerbya

Sowerbya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SowerbyidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinoidea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 39 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 39 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 32 of 39 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 8 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 9 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 6 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya149.2 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

39 occurrences of Sowerbya on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

39 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

17 formations

Trigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WPassage Beds — 53.97°N, 1.08°WPassage Beds — 54.21°N, 0.29°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WBerkshire Oolite — 51.78°N, 1.18°WCalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WOolithe de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.92°E

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The named rock units Sowerbya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sowerbya and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Sowerbya and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

320 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Sowerbya, 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

11 references

Each of the 39 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 Sowerbya

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSowerbyidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850