Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pinna (Pinna)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pinna
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinna
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinna
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
21 occurrences of Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata on record, most of them in the Late 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
21 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
10 formations
- Kap Leslie Formation3
- Calcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses Formation3
- Argile de Villerville Formation2
- Kimmeridge Clay Formation2
- Hartz Fjeld Formation1
- Trigonia clavellata Formation1
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The named rock units Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata 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.
Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Isocyprina10 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana10 sites
- Radulopecten fibrosus10 sites
- Protocardia9 sites
- Isognomon8 sites
- Pleuromya uniformis8 sites
- Thracia depressa8 sites
- Grammatodon concinnus7 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea6 sites
- Camptonectes6 sites
- Myophorella6 sites
- Pholadomya6 sites
- Radulopecten6 sites
- Serpula6 sites
- Discomiltha5 sites
- Entolium orbiculare5 sites
- Gryphaea5 sites
- Nicaniella5 sites
- Palaeonucula5 sites
- Pseudomelania5 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Cardioceras4 sites
- Corbulomima4 sites
- Goniomya4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata, 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
4 references- Unpublished data13
- Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India4
- Die Bivalvenfauna der Schwammkalke von Biburg (Oberoxford, Suedliche Frankenalb) Pteriomorphia I3
- Note on the occurrence of a new species of Iguanodon in a brick-pit of the Kimmeridge Clay at Cumnor Hurst, three miles W.S.W. of Oxford1
Each of the 21 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 content2
Picture of Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pinna sp. · YPM:IP:YPM IP 008880
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPinna (Pinna) through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1821