Pholadomya acuminata

Pholadomya acuminata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadomyaPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 9 of 11 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 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 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya154.8 Mya171.4 Mya148.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Pholadomya acuminata on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

11 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

Mughanniyya — 32.12°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.70°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EHamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°EHamam — 32.20°N, 35.70°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya acuminata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomya acuminata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pholadomya acuminata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pholadomya acuminata, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Pholadomya acuminata

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pholadomya acuminata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartmann 1830