Clavicosta echinata

Clavicosta echinata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClavicostaPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermian314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307 Mya293.52 Mya314.3 Mya289.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Clavicosta echinata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

3 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

3 formations

Flechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WCrouse — 37.08°N, 96.64°WEiss — 38.41°N, 96.56°W

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

Clavicosta echinata and its relatives

Permian

Where Clavicosta echinata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Clavicosta echinata, 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 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Clavicosta echinata

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itClavicosta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1938