Chondrodonta

Chondrodonta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChondrodontidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 20 of 74 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 74 occurrencesLate Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 10 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 12 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 12 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 12 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya93.9 Mya133.5 Mya88.9 Mya

74 occurrences of Chondrodonta 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

74 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

20 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EGalala — 28.67°N, 34.58°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°EHalal — 30.80°N, 33.45°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°EZirc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°ECupido — 25.19°N, 100.71°WQishn — 14.30°N, 48.49°ECipiapa — 17.03°N, 97.58°WAmba Aradam — 9.13°N, 41.83°EVillarroya — 40.52°N, 0.17°EIxcoy — 14.87°N, 91.52°WMural Limestone — 31.33°N, 109.10°WEdwards Limestone — 32.88°N, 101.15°WSligo — 28.03°N, 98.77°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.92°N, 98.30°WStuart City — 30.00°N, 96.00°WAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°ECol dei Schiosi Limestone — 46.05°N, 12.46°EYilani — 37.57°N, 29.23°EFort Lancaster — 30.25°N, 101.08°WTaninúl — 21.97°N, 98.92°W

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The named rock units Chondrodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chondrodonta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Chondrodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Chondrodonta, 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

30 references

Each of the 74 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. 18 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 Chondrodonta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chondrodonta 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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What may have been alongside itChondrodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1901