Pholadomya

Searched as Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) aubryi. The Paleobiology Database treats Pholadomya as the accepted name.

Pholadomya is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pholadomyidae.

Pholadomya

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadomyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya154.8 Mya165.8 Mya148.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Pholadomya on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

3 formations

Hanifa — 24.53°N, 46.61°EHanifa — 24.96°N, 46.21°EHanifa — 25.56°N, 45.39°ETuwaiq Mountain — 24.55°N, 46.44°EFaïdja — 35.17°N, 1.78°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pholadomya and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pholadomya and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,209 sites for Pholadomya, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Pholadomya

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPholadomyidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1823