Spondylus fimbriatus

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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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 46 occurrencesPaleocene107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya66 Mya107.2 Mya60.8 Mya

46 occurrences of Spondylus fimbriatus 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

46 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

8 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.00°N, 21.00°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.25°N, 22.57°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ERødvig — 56.97°N, 9.68°EMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°EGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°EQasr Al Abid — 32.30°N, 20.99°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°E

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The named rock units Spondylus fimbriatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spondylus fimbriatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Spondylus fimbriatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

528 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Spondylus fimbriatus, 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

12 references

Each of the 46 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

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No picture of Spondylus fimbriatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Spondylus fimbriatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spondylus fimbriatus 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 itSpondylus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1835