Pycnodonte amakusensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodontePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya85.7 Mya94.4 Mya83.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Pycnodonte amakusensis on record, most of them in the Late 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

3 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

Kajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°E

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

Pycnodonte amakusensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pycnodonte amakusensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pycnodonte amakusensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pycnodonte amakusensis 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 Pycnodonte amakusensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pycnodonte amakusensis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPycnodonte through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tashiro 1978