Monotis

Searched as Monotis scutiformis typica. The Paleobiology Database treats Monotis as the accepted name.

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 most 5.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211.7 Mya205.2 Mya

1 occurrence 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

1 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.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Monotis

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

No 3D scan of Monotis 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.

Keep going

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