Inoperna sowerbiana

Inoperna sowerbiana

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
InopernaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 57 of 67 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 67 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 19 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 33 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya165.3 Mya193.5 Mya160.9 Mya

67 occurrences of Inoperna sowerbiana 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

67 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

4 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°W

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The named rock units Inoperna sowerbiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Inoperna sowerbiana and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Inoperna sowerbiana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Inoperna sowerbiana, 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

5 references

Each of the 67 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 Inoperna sowerbiana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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 itInoperna through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Danise et al. 2019)