Fossularca

Fossularca

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arcidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arcidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Arcidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 13 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 16 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Fossularca on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

16 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

3 formations

Ameki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°E

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The named rock units Fossularca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fossularca and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fossularca and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Fossularca, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 Fossularca

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itArcidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1887)