Margaritifera flabellata
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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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
13 occurrences of Margaritifera flabellata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group3
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The named rock units Margaritifera flabellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Margaritifera flabellata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Margaritifera flabellata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Palaeotachea silvana10 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata9 sites
- Lymnaea dilatata7 sites
- Planorbarius cornu7 sites
- Palaeotachea renevieri6 sites
- Archaeozonites costatus4 sites
- Klikia3 sites
- Testudo3 sites
- Trionyx3 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus2 sites
- Deroceras2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Eumyarion medius2 sites
- Galba dupuyiana2 sites
- Keramidomys thaleri2 sites
- Lacerta2 sites
- Latonia gigantea2 sites
- Mauremys2 sites
- Megacricetodon (Collongomys) lappi2 sites
- Megacricetodon minor2 sites
- Microdyromys2 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii2 sites
- Palaeocarassius2 sites
- Palaeoleuciscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Margaritifera flabellata, 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- The fossil continental mollusks in the upper freshwater molasse (Middle Miocene) of the districts of Biberach, Ravensburg and Neu-Ulm, Germany12
- Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Margaritifera flabellata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Margaritifera flabellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Margaritifera flabellata 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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What may have been alongside itMargaritifera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1837)