Pholadomya vignesi

Pholadomya vignesi

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-ND · via iDigBio. 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 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–100 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya93.9 Mya106.8 Mya89.3 Mya

20 occurrences of Pholadomya vignesi on record. 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

20 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

8 formations

Mzinene — 27.90°S, 32.32°EGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EAbu Qada — 29.13°N, 33.28°EWata — 29.13°N, 33.28°EFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAl Baniyah — 32.31°N, 20.99°E

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The named rock units Pholadomya vignesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pholadomya vignesi, 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

9 references

Each of the 20 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

Media content1

Picture of Pholadomya vignesi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pholadomya vignesi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1877