Petalodontia

No picture of Petalodontia 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 Petalodontia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonopleuridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121.4 Mya100.5 Mya133.4 Mya93.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Petalodontia on record, most of them in the Early 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

10 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

Mural Limestone — 31.38°N, 109.75°WMural — 30.57°N, 111.48°W

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The named rock units Petalodontia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petalodontia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Petalodontia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Petalodontia, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Petalodontia 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 Petalodontia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Petalodontia 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 itMonopleuridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pocta 1889)