Plicatula (Harpax) auricula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Plicatula (Harpax)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 180.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 27 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 8 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 8 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193.4 Mya179.9 Mya

27 occurrences of Plicatula (Harpax) auricula on record, most of them in the Early 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

27 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

2 formations

Barahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°W

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The named rock units Plicatula (Harpax) auricula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatula (Harpax) auricula and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Plicatula (Harpax) auricula and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Plicatula (Harpax) auricula, 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

3 references

Each of the 27 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

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No picture of Plicatula (Harpax) auricula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plicatula (Harpax) auricula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlicatula (Harpax) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1858