Chaenomya

Chaenomya

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 20 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 20 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–207 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307 Mya211.18 Mya326 Mya199 Mya

20 occurrences of Chaenomya on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

20 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

15 formations

Nayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°EChumik — 33.00°N, 77.39°EGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WLyudyanza — 43.13°N, 133.24°ECabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WPoole — 18.04°S, 124.52°ENura Nura — 18.05°S, 124.51°EXiujimqinqi — 44.35°N, 117.65°EForaker Limestone — 39.24°N, 95.47°WPiauí — 4.73°S, 42.60°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°W

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The named rock units Chaenomya 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.

Chaenomya and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Chaenomya and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Chaenomya, 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

15 references

Each of the 20 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Chaenomya

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Chaenomya 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864