Amphidonta
No picture of Amphidonta 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 Amphidonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OstreinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Amphidonta 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
7 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.
Amphidonta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Amphidonta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Chlamys (Nomurachlamys)2 sites
- Aequipecten1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys)1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) parisiensis1 site
- Ctenoides spathulatus1 site
- Dimya1 site
- Gisortia gigantea1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Myliobatidae1 site
- Pycnodonta rarilamella1 site
- Spondylus1 site
- Spondylus radula1 site
- Terebellum fusiforme1 site
- Teredo1 site
- Velates perversus1 site
- Vulsella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Amphidonta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Amphidonta 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 Amphidonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphidonta 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 itOstreinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer de Waldheim 1829