Ceratomya wimmisensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratomyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 53 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 35 of 53 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 17 of 53 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 10 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 17 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 9 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya – 161.5 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

53 occurrences of Ceratomya wimmisensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

53 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

7 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°EShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EBihen Limestone — 9.88°N, 43.57°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.62°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EDaua Limestone — 3.90°N, 41.20°E

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The named rock units Ceratomya wimmisensis 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.

Ceratomya wimmisensis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ceratomya wimmisensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ceratomya wimmisensis, 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

8 references

Each of the 53 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 Ceratomya wimmisensis 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 Ceratomya wimmisensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratomya wimmisensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itCeratomya through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gillieron 1886)