Clavagella

Clavagella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClavagellidaePBDB
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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 18 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–918 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence83.6 Mya3.6 Mya87 Mya918 ka

41 occurrences of Clavagella 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

41 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

23 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WCalcaire de Eisden — 50.98°N, 5.70°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°ERipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.73°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WHückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°EMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°EEutaw — 32.54°N, 87.25°WTotara Limestone — 45.16°S, 170.88°EPuebla — 38.32°S, 144.32°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EGee Greensand — 45.12°S, 170.93°EOcala — 29.90°N, 82.50°WFossil Bluff Sandstone — 40.98°S, 145.73°E

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The named rock units Clavagella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clavagella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Clavagella, 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

25 references

Each of the 41 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. 13 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 Clavagella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Clavagella 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 itClavagellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1817