Pacitrigonia
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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 least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.
61 occurrences of Pacitrigonia 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
61 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Okarahia Sandstone Formation · Mata Group16
- Lefipán Formation11
- Lefipan Formation8
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group5
- Kahuitara Tuff Formation · Pitt Island Group3
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group2
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The named rock units Pacitrigonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pacitrigonia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pacitrigonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
311 taxa- Panopea21 sites
- Dimitobelus19 sites
- Eriphyla16 sites
- Panopea clausa16 sites
- Rotularia15 sites
- Chlamys (Mixtipecten)14 sites
- Dentalium14 sites
- Haumurigonia windhauseniana14 sites
- Struthioptera14 sites
- Lahillia13 sites
- Callista12 sites
- Lima (Limatula) woodsi12 sites
- Procancellaria12 sites
- Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica11 sites
- Inoceramus11 sites
- Inoceramus pacificus11 sites
- Camptonectes9 sites
- Dreissensia cf. lanceolata9 sites
- Entolium membranaceum9 sites
- Jupiteria9 sites
- Ostrea9 sites
- Thracia9 sites
- Anomia8 sites
- Cucullaea antarctica8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Pacitrigonia, 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
19 references- Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis11
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages9
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56)9
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough7
- Nuevos hallazgos de moluscos con afinidades australes en la formacion Lefipan (Cretacico superior, Chubut): significado paleogeografico6
- Tectonic and palaeobiogeographic significance of the Chatham Islands, South Pacific, Late Cretaceous fauna2
- Descripción de dos nuevas especies de Pacitrigonia Marwick y Austrotrigonia Skwarko (Trigoniidae; Bivalvia) en el Cretácico superior del occidente de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina2
- Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand2
- Consideraciones sobre una fauna del Cretácico Superior (Maestrichtiano) del Paso del Sapo, curso medio del Río Chubut2
- Die Lamellibrachiaten, Gastropoden ect. aus der oberen Kreide Südpatagoniens2
- Wunyelfia maulensis gen. et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile1
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Jaguel and Roca Formations (Maastrichtian-Danian) of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina1
Each of the 61 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. 7 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 Pacitrigonia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pacitrigonia 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. Marwick 1932