Pholadomya lirata

Pholadomya lirata

Jean.claude · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 9 of 150 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 128 of 150 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 13 of 150 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 150 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 9 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 24 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 29 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 35 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 28 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.2 Mya161.5 Mya194 Mya142 Mya

150 occurrences of Pholadomya lirata 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

150 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

28 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.42°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EMughanniyya — 32.17°N, 35.63°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°EMughanniyya — 32.10°N, 35.63°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.70°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°EHanifa — 25.02°N, 46.22°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 24.53°N, 46.61°EHanifa — 25.56°N, 45.39°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EDhahab — 32.12°N, 35.62°EHamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 20.25°N, 45.17°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.45°N, 57.12°EGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EBihen Limestone — 9.88°N, 43.57°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EArousiah — 30.72°N, 33.36°EArousiah — 30.69°N, 33.28°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°ERamla — 32.17°N, 35.68°ERukesa Shales — 4.05°N, 41.03°EHuni Dolomite — 32.23°N, 35.77°EVrska Cuka — 43.83°N, 22.37°EKarkar — 37.50°N, 71.00°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya lirata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomya lirata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

667 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Pholadomya lirata, 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

21 references

Each of the 150 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Pholadomya lirata

Credit
Jean.claude
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pholadomya lirata 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. (Sowerby 1818)