Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata

Barbatia appendiculata (Sowerby, 1820), a relative of Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata — not Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata itself

Not Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata. This is Barbatia appendiculata (Sowerby, 1820), a relative — both are Arcidae.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · 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
Barbatia (Barbatia)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Barbatia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Barbatia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Barbatia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata 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

17 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

9 formations

Earnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°EBruxelles — 50.83°N, 4.33°EMaldegem — 50.92°N, 4.30°EMera — 46.77°N, 23.60°E

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The named rock units Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

958 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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 Barbatia appendiculata (Sowerby, 1820)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Barbatia cancellaria · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:166530

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 itBarbatia (Barbatia) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1820)