Phaenodesmia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalletiidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 159 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
23 occurrences of Phaenodesmia on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
23 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Phaenodesmia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phaenodesmia and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Phaenodesmia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
618 taxa- Schafhaeutlia astartiformis8 sites
- Parallelodon7 sites
- Pteria7 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis6 sites
- Arcavicula6 sites
- Balanocrinus6 sites
- Bangtoupocrinus kokeni6 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
- Cassianella6 sites
- Cassianella simplex6 sites
- Cidaris6 sites
- Coelostylina liscaviensis6 sites
- Costatoria6 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis6 sites
- Elegantarca subareata6 sites
- Elegantinia6 sites
- Elegantinia elegans6 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis6 sites
- Eucycloscala6 sites
- Gervillia angulata6 sites
- Lepismatina hsui6 sites
- Leptochondria6 sites
- Mentzelia subspherica6 sites
- Modiolus salzstettensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Phaenodesmia, 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
8 references- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina6
- Die Großfauna der Mukronatenkreide (unteres Obercampan) im östlichen Münsterland6
- Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian4
- Die marine Trias in Süd-America3
- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)1
- Stratigraphy and macrofauna of the Zámostie limestones (upper Pelsonian-lower Illyrian) of the Choc Nappe at the southern slopes of the Nizke Tatry Mts. (West Carpathians)1
- Die Fauna Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alp (mit Ausschluss der Gastropoden und Cephalopoden)1
- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo1
Each of the 23 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
Media content0
No picture of Phaenodesmia 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 Phaenodesmia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phaenodesmia 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 itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1895