Abra (Abra) petropolitana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Abra (Abra)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Abra
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Abra
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Abra
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Abra (Abra) petropolitana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
- Stone City Formation4
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Abra (Abra) petropolitana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Abra (Abra) petropolitana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Abra (Abra) petropolitana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Anomia ephippioides5 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni5 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Notocorbula texana5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Orthoyoldia psammotaea5 sites
- Pteropsella5 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana5 sites
- Vokesula smithvillensis5 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Athleta lisbonensis4 sites
- Athleta petrosa4 sites
- Bonellitia parilis4 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) evanescentior4 sites
- Calorhadia compsa4 sites
- Cochlespira4 sites
- Cochlespirella4 sites
- Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) petropolitana4 sites
- Dentalium minutistriatum4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta)4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
- Gadila4 sites
- Gegania antiquata4 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia) genitiva4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Abra (Abra) petropolitana, 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
4 references- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas1
Each of the 6 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 Abra (Abra) petropolitana 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 Abra (Abra) petropolitana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Abra (Abra) petropolitana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAbra (Abra) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel 1957