Clavigera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClavigerinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Clavigera on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
22 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Clavigera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clavigera and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Clavigera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Arcticopora lobatula11 sites
- Metastenodiscus zealandicus10 sites
- Eoheteropora5 sites
- Rastelligera5 sites
- Torastarte bensoni4 sites
- Antiquilima3 sites
- Dielasma itaitubense3 sites
- Dyscritellopsis isoseptatus3 sites
- Fissirhynchia pacifica3 sites
- Kalentera3 sites
- Makoiamya cotterallae3 sites
- Oxycolpella3 sites
- Paraconularia matauraensis3 sites
- Pseudocyrtina3 sites
- Psioidiella3 sites
- Sakawairhynchia hugonensis3 sites
- Stolzenburgiella3 sites
- Zeilleria3 sites
- Zugmayerella taringaturaensis3 sites
- Arcestes2 sites
- Callospiriferina kawhiana2 sites
- Canadospira2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Costirhynchia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Clavigera, 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
4 references- New Caledonian Triassic Bryozoa14
- The Late Triassic molluscs, conodonts, and brachiopods of the kuta Formation, Papua New Guinea4
- Observations on Zealandian Triassic and Jurassic Brachiopoda3
- Late Triassic fluvial and marine shelf succession, Quebrada Dona Ines Chica, Atacama region, northern Chile1
Each of the 22 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 content2
Picture of Clavigera
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itClavigerinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.