Pinna
Searched as Pinnites. The Paleobiology Database treats Pinna as the accepted name.
No picture of Pinna was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pinna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinnidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 339 million years on record.
The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
1,189 occurrences of Pinna on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1,189 occurrences- Carboniferous2%
- Permianunder 1%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic8%
- Early Jurassic26%
- Middle Jurassic8%
- Late Jurassic10%
- Early Cretaceous11%
- Late Cretaceous18%
- Paleocene3%
- Eocene4%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene5%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene2%
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
311 formations
- Kap Leslie Formation43
- Turmiel Fm Formation27
- Nayband Formation23
- Neuburg Formation18
- Puchenque Formation18
- Twin Creek Limestone Formation18
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The named rock units Pinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 287 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 390 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pinna and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pinna and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
2,384 taxa- Astarte77 sites
- Camptonectes66 sites
- Isognomon49 sites
- Plagiostoma47 sites
- Entolium orbiculare46 sites
- Pleuromya uniformis46 sites
- Grammatodon45 sites
- Panopea44 sites
- Modiolus43 sites
- Serpula42 sites
- Ammonoidea40 sites
- Isocyprina39 sites
- Nuculana39 sites
- Linearis38 sites
- Cyprimeria37 sites
- Pleuromya37 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis36 sites
- Nucula35 sites
- Veniella conradi35 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata34 sites
- Granocardium34 sites
- Liopistha protexta34 sites
- Pholadomya34 sites
- Anomia argentaria33 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 998 sites for Pinna, 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
381 references- Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile78
- Palökologie benthischer Faunen aus dem Unter-Toarc SW-Europas46
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages42
- Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India36
- Temperature-related body size change of marine benthic macroinvertebrates across the Early Toarcian Anoxic Event30
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of Argentina: Part 1, Stratigraphical introduction and superfamilies Nuculanacea, Arcacea, Mytilacea and Pinnacea29
- Unpublished data28
- Die Muschelfauna der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias, Nor - Rhät) des östlichen Zentraliran23
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain22
- Zur Pelecypodenfauna der Neuburger Bankkalke (Mittel-Tithon)19
- The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 119
- Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States18
Each of the 1,189 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. 369 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 content0
No picture of Pinna was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pinna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pinna 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPinnidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1809