Homomya alsatica

Homomya alsatica

unknown · CC0 · 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
HomomyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 3.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 180.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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23 occurrences of Homomya alsatica 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

23 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.

Homomya alsatica and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Homomya alsatica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Homomya alsatica, 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 23 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Homomya alsatica

Source
GBIF
Credit
unknown
Licence
CC0
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 itHomomya through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1842