Clidophorus

Clidophorus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculanidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 220 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 18 of 29 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 29 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 29 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 29 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 29 occurrences477–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–449 Mya — about 14 occurrences449–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–280 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.3 Mya237 Mya477 Mya196 Mya

29 occurrences of Clidophorus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

29 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

12 formations

Lorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 45.79°N, 72.86°WLorraine — 43.70°N, 79.51°WLorraine — 45.36°N, 75.35°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 43.76°N, 79.63°WMcKenzie — 39.57°N, 78.84°WNaujoji Akmené — 56.25°N, 22.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.70°N, 21.13°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.63°N, 24.97°ENicolet River — 45.66°N, 72.93°WNicolet River — 45.45°N, 73.28°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°WPitinga — 1.13°S, 57.75°WBills Creek — 45.85°N, 85.88°WSheguiandah — 45.92°N, 82.11°WLorraine — 43.56°N, 76.11°WKeuper — 47.72°N, 11.98°EKapp Starostin — 78.09°N, 13.81°E

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The named rock units Clidophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clidophorus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Clidophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Clidophorus, 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

10 references

Each of the 29 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 Clidophorus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Clidophorus 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 itNuculanidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1862