Clionychia undata

No picture of Clionychia undata 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 Clionychia undata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CleionychiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 456.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 9 occurrencesSilurian457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452.5 Mya432.9 Mya457.2 Mya426.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Clionychia undata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

9 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

5 formations

Rochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.23°N, 76.98°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WArdwell Farm — 55.25°N, 4.85°WPower Glen — 43.11°N, 79.28°WFrognerkilen - Nakholmen — 60.43°N, 10.47°E

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

Clionychia undata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Clionychia undata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Clionychia undata, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Clionychia undata 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 Clionychia undata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Clionychia undata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1842)