Agelasina plenodonta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgelasinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
9 occurrences of Agelasina plenodonta 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
9 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Agelasina plenodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Agelasina plenodonta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Agelasina plenodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Trigonarca camerunensis4 sites
- Anofia aro3 sites
- Cryptorhytis3 sites
- Plicatula hirsuta3 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens3 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis3 sites
- Veniella3 sites
- Arca (Eonavicula) bogaerti2 sites
- Astarte similis2 sites
- Drilluta biplicata2 sites
- Inoperna flagellifera2 sites
- Mesocallista2 sites
- Protocardia (Protocardia)2 sites
- Pseudolimea2 sites
- Trigonarca curvatodonta2 sites
- Trigonarca furoni2 sites
- Turritella nodosa2 sites
- Veniella undata2 sites
- Volutomorpha similis2 sites
- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) quenseli1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Astarte awensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Agelasina plenodonta, 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
6 references- Mollusques fossiles du Crétace de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. II. - Lamellibranches3
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons2
- Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Coniacian-Santonian Anguille Formation from Cap Esterias, Northern Gabon, with notes on paleoecology and paleobiogeography1
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
Each of the 9 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 Agelasina plenodonta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Agelasina plenodonta 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 itAgelasina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riedel 1933