Paphia numidicus
No picture of Paphia numidicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Paphia numidicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaphiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Paphia numidicus 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paphia numidicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paphia numidicus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paphia numidicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Arctica globosa1 site
- Astarte awensis1 site
- Costagyra olisiponensis1 site
- Glossus aquilinus1 site
- Granocardium productum1 site
- Lavignon nigeriense1 site
- Liopistha ligeriensis1 site
- Mecaster1 site
- Micropedina olisiponensis1 site
- Mimachlamys cretosa1 site
- Nerita multigranosa1 site
- Pholadomya pedernalis1 site
- Pinna laticostata1 site
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi1 site
- Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli1 site
- Trigonarca acclivis1 site
- Veniella byzacenica1 site
- Volsella flichei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paphia numidicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Paphia numidicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Paphia numidicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paphia numidicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaphia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquand 1880)