Kuphus polythalamia

Kuphus polythalamius is a species of shipworm, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae.

Kuphus polythalamia

John Edward Gray (1800-1875) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
KuphusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Kuphus
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Kuphus
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Kuphus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesOligocene — about 10 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27.3 Mya3.6 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

32 occurrences of Kuphus polythalamia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

32 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

10 formations

Ghibirti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EGhibirti — 11.00°N, 51.07°EGheldeis — 10.28°N, 50.15°EGheldeis — 9.23°N, 50.67°EGheldeis — 9.60°N, 50.78°EGheldeis — 8.85°N, 49.32°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.47°N, 49.87°EMoneague — 18.37°N, 77.38°WMoneague — 18.34°N, 77.12°WMoneague — 18.08°N, 77.00°WMoneague — 18.03°N, 76.75°WGrand Bay — 12.50°N, 61.42°WGianti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGianti — 9.48°N, 50.82°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETavo — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGargorre — 10.70°N, 50.88°E

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The named rock units Kuphus polythalamia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kuphus polythalamia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kuphus polythalamia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kuphus polythalamia, 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

7 references

Each of the 32 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 content2

Picture of Kuphus polythalamia

Credit
John Edward Gray (1800-1875)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Kuphus polythalamia · MCZ:Mala:386028

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itKuphus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)