Amphidonte (Amphidonte)

Amphidonte (Amphidonte)

Newsom, Charles · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphidontePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 41 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

41 occurrences of Amphidonte (Amphidonte) 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

41 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

12 formations

Bilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EChoshi — 35.72°N, 140.82°ETanohata — 39.63°N, 141.78°ETanohata — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHiraiga — 39.63°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EAketo — 39.63°N, 141.95°EAketo — 40.00°N, 141.83°ECedar District — 49.56°N, 124.80°WCalcarenites du Jadet — 43.14°N, 0.95°EDoganaro — 33.37°N, 133.27°EFunks — 38.55°N, 122.03°WCalcaire Nankin — 43.16°N, 0.89°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.98°N, 15.60°EChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°W

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The named rock units Amphidonte (Amphidonte) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphidonte (Amphidonte) and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Amphidonte (Amphidonte) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Amphidonte (Amphidonte), 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

12 references

Each of the 41 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 content2

Picture of Amphidonte (Amphidonte)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Newsom, Charles
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer von Waldheim 1829