Monitilora duponti

Adrian Gale · 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
- MonitiloraPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Monitilora duponti on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Calcaire de Mons Formation2
- Hückelhoven Formation1
- Poudingue de Ciply Formation1
- Calcaire de Eisden Formation1
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The named rock units Monitilora duponti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monitilora duponti and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Monitilora duponti and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
304 taxa- Barbatia6 sites
- Fimbria montensis6 sites
- Loxocardium6 sites
- Venericardia6 sites
- Glycymeris5 sites
- Limopsis5 sites
- Barbierella briarti4 sites
- Calyptraea4 sites
- Clavagella4 sites
- Diodora4 sites
- Loripes4 sites
- Miltha montensis4 sites
- Pycnodonte4 sites
- Acar3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Arcopagia3 sites
- Arcoperna3 sites
- Callista3 sites
- Caryocorbula3 sites
- Cavilinga nanna3 sites
- Circulus3 sites
- Collonia3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Monitilora duponti, 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
4 references- Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 2: Bivalvia. Heterodonta und Anomalodesmata3
- Les Bivalvia du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique3
- Hanging on - lucinid bivalve survivors from the Paleocene and Eocene in the western Indian Ocean (Bivalvia: Lucinidae)1
- Fauna i stratygrafia paleocenu srodkowej Wisly1
Each of the 8 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 Monitilora duponti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Adrian Gale
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Monitilora duponti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMonitilora through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1908)