Spathopsis
Spathopsis is a genus of fresh-water mussel; it is a bivalve or clam which is in the family Iridinidae.
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- AspathariinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Spathopsis on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Spathopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Lanistes5 sites
- Alcelaphini3 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
- Damalacra3 sites
- Felis silvestris3 sites
- Giraffa camelopardalis3 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius3 sites
- Hippotragus equinus3 sites
- Hystrix cristata3 sites
- Lates niloticus3 sites
- Loxodonta africana3 sites
- Pila3 sites
- Synodontis3 sites
- Tilapia sp.3 sites
- Varanus3 sites
- Bellamya2 sites
- Bellamya unicolor2 sites
- Canis aureus2 sites
- Clarias2 sites
- Cleopatra bulimoides2 sites
- Corbicula consobrina2 sites
- Crocodylus2 sites
- dubia dubia2 sites
- Etheria elliptica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spathopsis, 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- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab4
- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania3
- Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Occupations in the Upper Atbara River Valley, Sudan1
Each of the 8 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 content1
Picture of Spathopsis
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Spathopsis”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAspathariinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1900