Pycnodonte vesicularis

Pycnodonte vesicularis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 386 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 369 of 386 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 386 occurrencesPaleocene114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 12 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 12 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 12 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 12 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 9 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 37 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 72 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 72 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 71 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences100.5 Mya66 Mya114 Mya61 Mya

386 occurrences of Pycnodonte vesicularis 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

386 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

62 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.22°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.15°N, 88.67°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.14°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 37.88°S, 68.57°WCorsicana Marl — 33.48°N, 94.68°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 30.26°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WCotinguiba — 10.62°S, 36.96°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.93°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.04°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.25°N, 88.96°WBaba Darves — 36.63°N, 69.70°EBaba Darves — 36.63°N, 69.75°EBaba Darves — 36.73°N, 69.85°EBaba Darves — 36.78°N, 69.95°EBaba Darves — 36.78°N, 70.03°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ELopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°ESevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 32.64°N, 88.17°WRipley — 32.15°N, 87.39°WKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°EKarai — 11.13°N, 78.89°EProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 34.40°N, 78.27°WPeedee — 34.46°N, 78.35°WAl Baniyah — 32.31°N, 20.99°EOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 89.00°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WBeer Head Limestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°ELithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°ESudr Chalk — 28.65°N, 33.24°ESudr Chalk — 30.38°N, 33.52°EQasr Al Abid — 32.31°N, 20.99°E

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The named rock units Pycnodonte vesicularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 120 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnodonte vesicularis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 311 sites for Pycnodonte vesicularis, 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

66 references

Each of the 386 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. 54 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

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Picture of Pycnodonte vesicularis

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No 3D scan of Pycnodonte vesicularis 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 itPycnodonte through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1806)