Gryphaea planoconvexa

Gryphaea planoconvexa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphaeaPBDB
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 most 32 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 46 of 47 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 16 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 16 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 14 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175.3 Mya142.5 Mya

47 occurrences of Gryphaea planoconvexa 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

47 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

Twin Creek Limestone — 44.00°N, 108.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.41°N, 111.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.42°N, 111.44°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.23°N, 111.27°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.87°N, 111.17°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.65°N, 111.07°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.45°N, 111.26°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.34°N, 111.16°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.84°N, 110.98°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.40°N, 111.04°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.33°N, 111.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.32°N, 110.70°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.17°N, 110.83°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.84°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.94°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.92°N, 111.25°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.33°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.45°N, 111.37°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.67°N, 111.58°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.63°N, 111.27°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.84°N, 111.15°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.51°N, 110.51°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.66°N, 111.33°W

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The named rock units Gryphaea planoconvexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea planoconvexa and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Gryphaea planoconvexa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Gryphaea planoconvexa, 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

Each of the 47 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 planoconvexa

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Gryphaea planoconvexa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitfield 1876