Gervillella orientalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GervillellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Gervillella
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Gervillella
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Gervillella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Gervillella orientalis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
6 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Gervillella orientalis 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.
Gervillella orientalis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Gervillella orientalis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Coelostylina3 sites
- Pronoella3 sites
- Ampullospira2 sites
- Exelissa2 sites
- Pietteia2 sites
- Zygopleura2 sites
- Acteonina1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Brachytrema1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Chlamys textoria1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Eosphaera madagascariensis1 site
- Gryphaea costellata1 site
- Homomya inornata1 site
- Mactromya1 site
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus1 site
- Parallelodon1 site
- Pholadomya carinata1 site
- Pictavia1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Procerithium1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Pteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gervillella orientalis, 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
4 references- Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya3
- Jurassic rocks, bivalves, and depositional environments of the source area of the Yangtze River, Qinghai Province, western China1
- The Jurassic bivalve fauna from the western side of the Bucegi Mountains, part 1 subclasses Palaeotaxodonta and Pteriomorphia (Orders Arcoida, Pterioida, Limoida)1
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Gervillella orientalis 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 Gervillella orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gervillella orientalis 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 itGervillella through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douvillé 1916)