Palaeolucina carbonaria

No picture of Palaeolucina carbonaria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Palaeolucina carbonaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeolucinaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298.9 Mya259.857 Mya325 Mya253 Mya

2 occurrences of Palaeolucina carbonaria on record. 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

2 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

2 formations

Wargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 114.60°E

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The named rock units Palaeolucina carbonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaeolucina carbonaria, 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

Each of the 2 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 Palaeolucina carbonaria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Palaeolucina carbonaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeolucina carbonaria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chao 1927