Posidonia

Searched as Posidonia corrugata gigantea. The Paleobiology Database treats Posidonia as the accepted name.

Posidonia

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PosidoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Posidoniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327.4 Mya323.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Posidonia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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 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

Sabden Shale — 54.00°N, 3.00°W

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

Posidonia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Posidonia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,095 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 278 sites for Posidonia, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Posidonia

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPosidoniidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1828