Pholadomyidae

Pholadomyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Anomalodesmata.

Pholadomyidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 450 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Ordovician — about 41 of 2593 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 2593 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2593 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 12 of 2593 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 45 of 2593 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 7 of 2593 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 2593 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 80 of 2593 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 672 of 2593 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 640 of 2593 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 321 of 2593 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 228 of 2593 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 332 of 2593 occurrencesPaleocene — about 42 of 2593 occurrencesEocene — about 92 of 2593 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 2593 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 2593 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 2593 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 2593 occurrences467–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–436 Mya — about 33 occurrences436–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–312 Mya — about 7 occurrences312–296 Mya — about 6 occurrences296–280 Mya — about 26 occurrences280–265 Mya — about 13 occurrences265–249 Mya — about 5 occurrences249–234 Mya — about 38 occurrences234–218 Mya — about 12 occurrences218–203 Mya — about 52 occurrences203–187 Mya — about 375 occurrences187–171 Mya — about 345 occurrences171–156 Mya — about 776 occurrences156–140 Mya — about 154 occurrences140–125 Mya — about 100 occurrences125–109 Mya — about 76 occurrences109–93 Mya — about 107 occurrences93–78 Mya — about 81 occurrences78–62 Mya — about 201 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 54 occurrences47–31 Mya — about 73 occurrences31–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences453.8 Mya3.6 Mya467 Mya0 Mya

2,593 occurrences of Pholadomyidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

2,593 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

475 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.17°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.12°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.42°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°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°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 25.02°N, 46.22°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 26.33°N, 45.00°EHanifa — 24.53°N, 46.61°EHanifa — 25.56°N, 45.39°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°EMughanniyya — 32.10°N, 35.63°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.70°EShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 44.00°N, 108.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.41°N, 111.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.40°N, 111.04°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.32°N, 110.70°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.17°N, 110.83°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.84°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.30°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.76°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.51°N, 111.38°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.09°N, 110.46°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.38°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.33°N, 110.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.42°N, 110.80°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WLautaro — 29.11°S, 70.44°WLautaro — 29.11°S, 70.30°WLautaro — 29.36°S, 70.19°WLautaro — 27.66°S, 69.97°WLautaro — 28.04°S, 70.00°WLautaro — 28.14°S, 69.96°WLautaro — 28.21°S, 69.94°WLautaro — 28.30°S, 69.97°WLautaro — 27.99°S, 69.71°WLautaro — 27.90°S, 69.98°WLautaro — 28.57°S, 70.10°WLautaro — 28.66°S, 70.07°WCalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECape Stewart Beds — 70.44°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.47°N, 22.64°WHamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°EHamam — 32.18°N, 35.62°EHamam — 32.20°N, 35.70°EBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.63°WBudden Canyon — 40.60°N, 122.91°WCape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAberhan Pliensbach — 33.47°S, 70.75°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°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°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°ENayband — 32.35°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.18°N, 57.32°E

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The named rock units Pholadomyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 451 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 832 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomyidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pholadomyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,451 sites for Pholadomyidae, 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

495 references

Each of the 2,593 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. 483 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pholadomyidae

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

No 3D scan of Pholadomyidae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1844