Entolium lunare
Chartron · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntoliumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Entolium
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Entolium
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Entolium
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Entoliidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
89 occurrences of Entolium lunare on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
14 formations
- Puchenque Formation14
- Cleveland Ironstone Formation6
- Ozirovo Formation6
- El Cholo Formation5
- Whitby Mudstone Formation5
- Barahona Limestone Formation4
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The named rock units Entolium lunare has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Entolium lunare and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Entolium lunare and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Chlamys textoria23 sites
- Bivalvia19 sites
- Gryphaea arcuata18 sites
- Pseudopecten equivalvis18 sites
- Brachiopoda17 sites
- Oxytoma inequivalvis17 sites
- Liostrea14 sites
- Plagiostoma13 sites
- Pleuromya12 sites
- Pseudolimea duplicata12 sites
- Weyla (Lywea) unca12 sites
- Camptonectes subulatus11 sites
- Gastropoda11 sites
- Pinna folium11 sites
- Terebratula11 sites
- Limea acuticostata10 sites
- Weyla alata10 sites
- Kolymonectes weaveri9 sites
- Gryphaea gigantea8 sites
- Harpax rapa8 sites
- Modiolus8 sites
- Cardinia7 sites
- Chlamys7 sites
- Parallelodon7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Entolium lunare, 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
15 references- Early Jurassic bivalves of Argentina: Part 3, Superfamilies Monotoidea, Pectinoidea, Plicatuloidea and Dimyoidea36
- Dynamische Palaookologie und taxonomische Bearbeitung des Unterjura (Hettangium bis unteres Sinemurium) auf der Schwabischen Alb19
- The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: an Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic)11
- Palaeoenvironmental and biotic change through the Lower Jurassic in Bulgaria6
- Stratigraphic and environmental control on marine benthic community change through the early Toarcian extinction event (Iberian Range, Spain)4
- Early Jurassic shell beds from marginal marine environments in southern Mendoza, Argentina2
- Faunal affinity of Toarcian-Aalenian (Early Jurassic) bivalves from Mae Sot and Umphang (Tak Province), Northwestern Thailand2
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia2
- Moluscos bivalves da Formação de Água de Madeiros (Sinemuriano superior) da Bacia Lusitânica (Portugal)1
- The bipolar bivalve Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cygnipes (Young and Bird, 1822) in the Upper Pliensbachian of Germany1
- El género Groeberella Leanza, 1993 y Groeberellidae nov.(Bivalvia; Trigonioida) del Jurásico de Chile y Argentina1
- Hettangian (Early Jurassic) megafauna and paleogeography of the Bakony Mts. (Hungary)1
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. 3 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 Entolium lunare
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Chartron
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Entolium lunare 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 itEntolium through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1839)