Margaritifera (Margaritifera)

Margaritifera (Margaritifera)

Floribus · CC BY-NC 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
MargaritiferaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 20 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 16.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100.5 Mya20 Mya115 Mya15 Mya

2 occurrences of Margaritifera (Margaritifera) on record. 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

2 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

Elrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°E

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The named rock units Margaritifera (Margaritifera) 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.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Margaritifera (Margaritifera), 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Margaritifera (Margaritifera)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Floribus
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itMargaritifera through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1815