Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi
No picture of Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurobemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida
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.
2 occurrences of Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Ostrea2 sites
- ? Rhytophorus caurinus1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Brachydontes1 site
- Corbicula dowlingi1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Corbula nematophora1 site
- Cyclorisma orbiculata1 site
- Inoceramus rutherfordi1 site
- Mactra1 site
- Modiolus silentiensis1 site
- Pachymelania1 site
- Posidonioceramus athabaskensis1 site
- Posidonioceramus dunveganensis1 site
- Solecurtus1 site
- Tellina1 site
- Thiara1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The Cretaceous Alberta Group and equivalent rocks, Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta1
- Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology: New species from the Coloradoan of Lower Smokey and Lower Peace Rivers, Alberta1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Unio (Pleurobema) dowlingi 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 itPleurobema through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1945