Falcatopinna

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinnidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pinnidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinnidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinnidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303.7 Mya286 Mya307.7 Mya273.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Falcatopinna on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

Graham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WWinchell — 32.87°N, 98.43°WWinchell — 32.87°N, 98.49°WLansing — 39.24°N, 94.94°WOread — 39.12°N, 95.09°WTalpa — 31.74°N, 99.99°W

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The named rock units Falcatopinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Falcatopinna and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Falcatopinna and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Falcatopinna, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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 Falcatopinna 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 Falcatopinna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Falcatopinna 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 itPinnidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yancey 2024