Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata

Gryphaea sublobata (Deshayes, 1830), a relative of Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata — not Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata itself

Not Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata. This is Gryphaea sublobata (Deshayes, 1830), a relative.

Gautier, Emile Félix · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Gryphaea (Bilobissa)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 97 of 113 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 113 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 113 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 58 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 10 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya161.5 Mya193.7 Mya154 Mya

113 occurrences of Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata on record, most of them in the Early 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

113 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

8 formations

Barahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 26.33°N, 45.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°EUpper Trigonia Grit — 51.80°N, 1.88°WGryphite Grits — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata, 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

6 references

Each of the 113 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 Gryphaea sublobata (Deshayes, 1830)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Gautier, Emile Félix
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itGryphaea (Bilobissa) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1830)