Valvatida

Searched as Valvata. The Paleobiology Database treats Valvatida as the accepted name.

No picture of Valvatida was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Valvatida itself, so it was not used. 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 Valvatida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ValvataceaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 393 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Devonian — about 1 of 769 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 769 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 769 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 769 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 769 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 769 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 769 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 36 of 769 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 40 of 769 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 47 of 769 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 476 of 769 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 32 of 769 occurrencesEocene — about 43 of 769 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 769 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 769 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 769 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 769 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–209 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences209–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–181 Mya — about 4 occurrences181–168 Mya — about 13 occurrences168–154 Mya — about 44 occurrences154–140 Mya — about 22 occurrences140–126 Mya — about 7 occurrences126–112 Mya — about 15 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 74 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 226 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 124 occurrences70–56 Mya — about 108 occurrences56–42 Mya — about 25 occurrences42–28 Mya — about 21 occurrences28–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 73 occurrences393.47 Mya129 ka419 Mya0 Mya

769 occurrences of Valvatida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

769 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

116 formations

Gulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 6.77°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EJiaozhou — 36.27°N, 119.95°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.50°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.17°N, 2.70°EWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°EPawpaw — 32.73°N, 97.32°WPawpaw — 32.95°N, 97.32°WPawpaw — 32.84°N, 97.29°WPawpaw — 32.63°N, 97.40°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ESables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WPeruc-Korycany — 50.23°N, 14.43°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.13°N, 14.28°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.06°N, 15.10°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.83°N, 15.25°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.95°N, 15.47°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.98°N, 15.60°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.97°N, 15.65°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.24°N, 14.48°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.78°N, 14.08°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.08°N, 15.03°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°ELa Tonnelle — 46.85°N, 1.88°WMingshui — 46.21°N, 124.27°EHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WLealt Shale — 56.92°N, 6.15°WPierre Blanche de Langrune — 49.30°N, 0.35°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WCraie de Meudon — 48.82°N, 2.23°ECalcaires à Baculites — 49.43°N, 1.35°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.73°W

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The named rock units Valvatida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 350 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Valvatida and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Valvatida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 251 sites for Valvatida, and this reads 240 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

147 references

Each of the 769 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. 135 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

Media content0

No picture of Valvatida was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Valvatida itself, so it was not used.

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 Valvatida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Valvatida 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itValvatacea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perrier 1884