Pholadomorpha pholadiformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PholadomorphaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pholadomorpha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pholadomorpha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Time the record covers
At least 100 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
27 occurrences of Pholadomorpha pholadiformis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
27 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Waynesville Formation · Richmond Group8
- Lorraine Formation8
- Waynesville Formation4
- Georgian Bay Formation · Nottawasaga Group3
- Stonington Formation2
- Lorraine Formation2
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The named rock units Pholadomorpha pholadiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pholadomorpha pholadiformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pholadomorpha pholadiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Pterinea demissa12 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata9 sites
- Ambonychia8 sites
- Cyrtolites ornatus7 sites
- Isotelus maximus6 sites
- Catazyga headi5 sites
- Flexicalymene meeki5 sites
- Isotelus gigas5 sites
- Byssonychia radiata4 sites
- Cycloconcha4 sites
- Cymatonota recta4 sites
- Halloporidae4 sites
- Modiolopsis modiolaris4 sites
- Platystrophia clarksvillensis4 sites
- Plectambonites sericeus4 sites
- Pseudolingula4 sites
- Psiloconcha grandis4 sites
- Rafinesquina mucronata4 sites
- Calymenidae3 sites
- Cuneamya miamiensis3 sites
- Cyclonema bilix3 sites
- Helicelasma rusticum3 sites
- Ischyrodonta unionoides3 sites
- Paupospira tropidophora3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pholadomorpha pholadiformis, 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
6 references- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec15
- Taxonomic richness and abundance of Late Ordovician gastropods and bivalves in mollusc-rich strata of the Cincinnati Arch4
- The occurrence of pelecypods in early Paleozoic epeiric-sea environments, Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area3
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario2
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan2
- The Pelecypod Genus Vlasta in the Ordovician of North America1
Each of the 27 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
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No picture of Pholadomorpha pholadiformis 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 Pholadomorpha pholadiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pholadomorpha pholadiformis 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.
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What may have been alongside itPholadomorpha through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1851)