Spondylus gaederopus

Spondylus gaederopus

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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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 18 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 36 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Spondylus gaederopus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

36 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

9 formations

Lindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°E

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The named rock units Spondylus gaederopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spondylus gaederopus and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

1,049 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Spondylus gaederopus, 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

21 references

Each of the 36 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. 9 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

Media content2

Picture of Spondylus gaederopus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Linnaeus 1758