Plicatula variata

No picture of Plicatula variata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Plicatula variata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlicatulaPBDB
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 least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125.77 Mya119.57 Mya133.1 Mya112.7 Mya

15 occurrences of Plicatula variata on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

15 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

1 formation

Budden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.61°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°W

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The named rock units Plicatula variata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plicatula variata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Plicatula variata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plicatula variata, 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

Each of the 15 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 content0

No picture of Plicatula variata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Plicatula variata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plicatula variata 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.

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What may have been alongside itPlicatula through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1864