Cowperesia emerita
No picture of Cowperesia emerita 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 Cowperesia emerita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CowperesiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cowperesia emerita 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Cowperesia emerita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cowperesia emerita and its relatives
PermianWhere Cowperesia emerita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Terraia altissima2 sites
- Terraia curvata2 sites
- Astartellopsis prosoclina1 site
- Beurlenella elongatella1 site
- Holdhausiella elongata1 site
- Leinzia curta1 site
- Terraia bipleura1 site
- Terraia falconeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cowperesia emerita, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- The Permian Tiaraju bivalve assemblage, Passa Dois Group, southern Brazil: biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance1
- A new Permian bivalve-dominated assemblage in the Rio do Rasto Formation, Parana Basin, Brazil: Faunal turnover driven by regional-scale environmental changes in a vast epeiric sea1
- Permian bivalves from the Gai-As Formation, northern Namibia: systematics, taphonomy, and biostratigraphy1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cowperesia emerita 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 Cowperesia emerita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cowperesia emerita 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCowperesia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1929)