Exogyrinae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GryphaeidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 199 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2,396 occurrences of Exogyrinae 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
2,396 occurrences- Early Jurassic4%
- Middle Jurassic8%
- Late Jurassic18%
- Early Cretaceous18%
- Late Cretaceous52%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eoceneunder 1%
- Mioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
320 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group100
- Chari Formation91
- Corsicana Marl Formation81
- Galala Formation72
- Cotinguiba Formation47
- Neylandville Marl Formation37
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The named rock units Exogyrinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 296 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 576 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Exogyrinae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Exogyrinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,545 taxa- Exogyra74 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata59 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis57 sites
- Pycnodonte52 sites
- Crassatella vadosa46 sites
- Anomia argentaria45 sites
- Cyprimeria44 sites
- Granocardium44 sites
- Nuculana43 sites
- Aphrodina42 sites
- Panopea42 sites
- Syncyclonema41 sites
- Serpula40 sites
- Astarte39 sites
- Spondylus39 sites
- Veniella conradi39 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata38 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)38 sites
- Camptonectes37 sites
- Crenella serica37 sites
- Cymbophora37 sites
- Inoceramus37 sites
- Modiolus37 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis35 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,672 sites for Exogyrinae, and this reads 240 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
354 references- Unpublished data217
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain116
- Unpublished data from Kachchh100
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages91
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain90
- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution62
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)57
- Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile57
- Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt54
- Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal)54
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas51
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf50
Each of the 2,396 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. 342 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 Exogyrinae
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGryphaeidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vialov 1936