Fossularca africana

No picture of Fossularca africana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Fossularca africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FossularcaPBDB
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 most 7.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEocene48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.6 Mya40.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Fossularca africana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

10 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

1 formation

Ameki — 5.00°N, 7.50°E

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The named rock units Fossularca africana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fossularca africana and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fossularca africana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Fossularca africana, 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

1 reference

Each of the 10 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

Media content0

No picture of Fossularca africana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Fossularca africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fossularca africana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFossularca through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922