Goniophora

Goniophora is an extinct genus of clams. It lived during the Ordovician to Permian periods.

Goniophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 213 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 216 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 62 of 216 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 133 of 216 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 216 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 216 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 216 occurrences482–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–427 Mya — about 11 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 49 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 6 occurrences411–404 Mya — about 8 occurrences404–396 Mya — about 10 occurrences396–388 Mya — about 12 occurrences388–380 Mya — about 68 occurrences380–372 Mya — about 27 occurrences372–365 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences365–357 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences357–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–318 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences318–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–247 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473.8 Mya259.857 Mya482 Mya247 Mya

216 occurrences of Goniophora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

216 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

85 formations

Glen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.83°WGlen Aubrey — 42.18°N, 75.90°WGlen Aubrey — 42.17°N, 76.05°WGlen Aubrey — 42.11°N, 75.85°WGlen Aubrey — 42.20°N, 75.68°WGlen Aubrey — 42.23°N, 75.53°WGlen Aubrey — 42.32°N, 75.75°WGlen Aubrey — 42.28°N, 75.70°WGlen Aubrey — 42.26°N, 75.98°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 75.93°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.80°N, 77.25°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WTriangle — 42.46°N, 75.47°WTriangle — 42.26°N, 75.40°WTriangle — 42.30°N, 75.51°WTriangle — 42.22°N, 75.47°WTriangle — 42.33°N, 75.31°WTriangle — 42.38°N, 75.58°WTriangle — 42.17°N, 75.84°WTriangle — 42.29°N, 75.60°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°ESt. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.26°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.92°N, 93.02°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.95°N, 93.10°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 23.87°N, 109.77°EMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ETaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°ECano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.81°N, 91.98°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.75°N, 91.88°WYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°EKlinta — 59.08°N, 12.93°ELower Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.77°S, 20.92°E

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The named rock units Goniophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniophora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Goniophora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,637 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 191 sites for Goniophora, 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

79 references

Each of the 216 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. 67 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 content2

Picture of Goniophora

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1848)