Pedalion

Pedalion

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsognomoninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Isognomoninae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Isognomoninae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Isognomoninae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 13 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Pedalion on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

13 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

7 formations

Ripley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.53°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.79°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WEastover — 37.23°N, 76.96°W

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The named rock units Pedalion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pedalion and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pedalion and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pedalion, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Pedalion

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pedalion 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 itIsognomoninae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huddesford 1770