Monotis

Monotis

Momotarou2012 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MonotidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Monotidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 345 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 345 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 345 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 339 of 345 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 345 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 5 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 4 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 3 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 11 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 20 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 20 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 20 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 20 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 21 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 35 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 36 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 54 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 54 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 26 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences259.857 Mya205.7 Mya266 Mya200 Mya

345 occurrences of Monotis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

345 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

36 formations

Pardonet — 56.00°N, 122.75°WPardonet — 56.12°N, 122.88°WPardonet — 58.27°N, 121.77°WPardonet — 56.13°N, 123.08°WPardonet — 56.03°N, 123.05°WPardonet — 56.48°N, 122.93°WPardonet — 56.09°N, 123.04°WPardonet — 55.51°N, 122.58°WPardonet — 55.50°N, 122.68°WOtuk — 68.29°N, 165.64°WOtuk — 68.57°N, 155.77°WOtuk — 68.52°N, 149.07°WOtuk — 68.41°N, 165.65°WOtuk — 68.67°N, 165.78°WUmegatani — 35.72°N, 139.22°EUmegatani — 35.78°N, 139.23°EUmegatani — 32.50°N, 130.75°EUmegatani — 33.50°N, 133.27°EUmegatani — 33.75°N, 134.33°EHalstatt — 47.67°N, 13.10°EHalstatt — 47.71°N, 13.62°EHalstatt — 47.66°N, 13.65°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EHalstatt — 47.53°N, 13.52°EPeschanka — 43.25°N, 131.72°EPeschanka — 43.30°N, 132.05°EPeschanka — 43.32°N, 131.83°EPeschanka — 43.45°N, 131.77°EPeschanka — 43.65°N, 131.80°EPeschanka — 43.47°N, 132.05°EPeschanka — 43.47°N, 132.37°ENanshuangyashan — 45.72°N, 132.03°ENanshuangyashan — 45.92°N, 133.13°EPerevoznaya — 43.25°N, 131.72°EPerevoznaya — 43.55°N, 132.12°EPerevoznaya — 43.50°N, 131.90°ELeprédour Shellbed — 22.05°S, 166.08°ELeprédour Shellbed — 22.00°S, 166.05°EMcCarthy — 61.67°N, 142.67°WMcCarthy — 61.56°N, 143.45°WHoyt Canyon — 39.78°N, 117.78°WKamishak — 57.72°N, 155.30°WKamishak — 57.71°N, 155.38°WPayandé — 4.30°N, 75.10°WPayandé — 3.63°N, 75.43°WArawi Shellbed — 38.32°S, 174.72°EHallstatt — 47.90°N, 16.10°EChambara — 6.37°S, 77.90°WHound Island Volcanics — 56.90°N, 133.83°WHound Island Volcanics — 56.82°N, 133.98°WHound Island Volcanics — 56.87°N, 133.93°WShublik — 68.95°N, 148.13°WShublik — 69.53°N, 145.21°WCassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ENayband — 33.12°N, 51.98°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°EKaradan — 70.50°N, 127.97°ESan Hipolito — 29.99°N, 113.98°WTorlesse — 41.88°S, 172.85°EMoenkopi — 35.44°N, 115.51°WBrock Shale — 40.05°N, 120.72°W

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The named rock units Monotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 170 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monotis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Monotis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Monotis, 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

57 references

Each of the 345 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. 45 further references are not listed. 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 Monotis

Credit
Momotarou2012
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itMonotidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1830