Claraia ovalis

No picture of Claraia ovalis 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 Claraia ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClaraiaPBDB
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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic250–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences247 Mya157.9 Mya250 Mya153 Mya

10 occurrences of Claraia ovalis on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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

Nothe Grits — 50.80°N, 2.28°WHambleton Oolite — 54.25°N, 1.07°WOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WUpper Calcareous Grit — 53.98°N, 1.53°WCalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WMiddle Calcareous Grit — 54.21°N, 0.29°WLower Calcareous Grit — 54.21°N, 0.29°WToad — 59.50°N, 126.34°W

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The named rock units Claraia ovalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Claraia ovalis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Claraia ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Claraia ovalis, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Claraia ovalis 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 Claraia ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Claraia ovalis 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 itClaraia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1889)