Sphenotus washingtonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenotusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
2 occurrences of Sphenotus washingtonensis 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sphenotus washingtonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenotus washingtonensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Sphenotus washingtonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Edmondia equilateralis2 sites
- Polidevcia stevensiana2 sites
- Solenomorpha nitida2 sites
- Apotocardium peculiare1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Aviculopecten crenistriatus1 site
- Aviculopecten inspeciosus1 site
- Aviculopecten squamula1 site
- Caneyella peculiaris1 site
- Cardiomorpha inflata1 site
- Cardiomorpha obovata1 site
- Cypricardella subalata1 site
- Deltopecten caneyanus1 site
- Ectogrammysia inaffecta1 site
- Ectogrammysia prolata1 site
- Euconospira disjuncta1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Nuculavus okawensis1 site
- Nuculopsis rectangula1 site
- Paladin mucronatus1 site
- Palaeolima1 site
- Palaeoneilo sera1 site
- Paleyoldia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sphenotus washingtonensis, 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
2 references- Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia1
- Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Pelecypods1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphenotus washingtonensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Sphenotus washingtonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenotus washingtonensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itSphenotus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1910