Spondylus crassicosta

Spondylus crassicosta

Hectonichus · 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
SpondylusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spondylus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spondylus
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Spondylus
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Spondylidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Spondylus crassicosta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

18 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

7 formations

Pinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.37°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EAl Faidiyah — 32.69°N, 21.91°EAsmari Limestone — 26.95°N, 55.58°E

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The named rock units Spondylus crassicosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spondylus crassicosta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spondylus crassicosta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Spondylus crassicosta, 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

10 references

Each of the 18 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 Spondylus crassicosta

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

No 3D scan of Spondylus crassicosta 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 itSpondylus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1819