Wallowaconchidae
No picture of Wallowaconchidae 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 Wallowaconchidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalodontoideaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunal, gregariousPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Wallowaconchidae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
11 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
5 formations
- Aksala Formation3
- Ghalilah Formation · Elphinstone Group3
- Parson Bay Formation2
- Nunuluka Formation · Lilang Group1
- Hurwal Formation1
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The named rock units Wallowaconchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wallowaconchidae and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Wallowaconchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Wallowaconcha raylenea7 sites
- Retiophyllia2 sites
- Retiophyllia norica2 sites
- Spondylospira lewesensis2 sites
- Alpinophyllia flexuosa1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Astraeomorpha sonorensis1 site
- Aulosina oberhauseri1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Chondrocoenia1 site
- Chondrocoenia waltheri1 site
- Cinnabaria expansa1 site
- Colospongia dubia1 site
- Colospongia mennulensis1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Crassistella1 site
- Crassistella juvavica1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cryptocoelia zitteli1 site
- Distichoflabellum1 site
- Distichomeandra1 site
- Distichomeandra austriaca1 site
- Distichophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Wallowaconchidae, 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
8 references- Giant Upper Triassic bivalves of Wrangellia, Vancouver Island, Canada2
- Biogeography of the Late Triassic wallowaconchid megalodontoid bivalves2
- New paleontological investigations of Upper Triassic shallow-water reef carbonates (Lewes River Group) in the Whitehorse area, Yukon2
- Upper Triassic (Norian) hypercalcified sponges from the Musandam Peninsula (United Arab Emirates and Oman)1
- A sphinctozoan sponge from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the United Arab Emirates1
- New paleontological investigations of Triassic carbonate rocks in the Upper Chulitna District (Chulitna Terrane), southcentral Alaska1
- University of Montana1
- Giant alatoform bivalves in the Upper Triassic of western North America1
Each of the 11 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 Wallowaconchidae 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 Wallowaconchidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wallowaconchidae 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 itMegalodontoidea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yancey and Stanley 1999