Clisocolus

Clisocolus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MactromyidaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Lucinoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 89 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 85 of 89 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 89 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 89 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 8 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 7 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 12 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 10 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya66 Mya134 Mya54 Mya

89 occurrences of Clisocolus 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

89 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

22 formations

Ladd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WMoreno — 37.27°N, 121.17°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.14°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WWilliams — 33.71°N, 117.71°WWilliams — 33.83°N, 117.66°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WPanoche — 36.29°N, 120.38°WGalala — 29.27°N, 34.72°EBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.62°WChatsworth — 34.22°N, 118.67°WChico — 39.80°N, 121.73°WChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WMinato, Azenotani & Shichi Shale, Kitaama Sandstone, Yoroizaki Sandstone — 34.47°N, 135.42°EMinato, Azenotani, Kitaama & Shichi Shale, Shimonada Siltsone, Yoroizaki Sandstone — 34.50°N, 135.00°EKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EMerced — 37.19°N, 121.09°WRosario — 29.58°N, 115.24°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WTuna Canyon — 34.12°N, 118.57°WPleasants Sandstone — 33.65°N, 117.68°WHimenoura U-IV — 32.20°N, 130.02°E

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The named rock units Clisocolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clisocolus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

891 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Clisocolus, 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

26 references

Each of the 89 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. 14 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 Clisocolus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clisocolus 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 itMactromyidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1869