Microtrigonia
No picture of Microtrigonia 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 Microtrigonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniidae
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trigoniidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Trigoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trigoniidae
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Microtrigonia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Minato, Azenotani, Kitaama & Shichi Shale, Shimonada Siltsone, Yoroizaki Sandstone Formation · Izumi Group2
- Shimonada Siltstone and Sandstone & Kitaama Sandstone and Shale Formation · Izumi Group1
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The named rock units Microtrigonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microtrigonia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Microtrigonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Inoceramus4 sites
- Limopsis4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Periplomya4 sites
- Pleurogrammatodon4 sites
- Aphrodina3 sites
- Cnestriella3 sites
- Izumicardia3 sites
- Leionucula3 sites
- Leptosolen3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)2 sites
- Apiotrigonia2 sites
- Brachidontes2 sites
- Clisocolus2 sites
- Eriphyla2 sites
- Eriphyla (Eriphyla)2 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)2 sites
- Izumia2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Nanonavis2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Portlandia2 sites
- Tenea2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) hokkaidoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Microtrigonia, 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- A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan5
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Microtrigonia 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 Microtrigonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microtrigonia 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 itTrigoniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.