Sulcatopinna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinnidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinnidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
19 occurrences of Sulcatopinna 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
19 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
14 formations
- Bluestone Formation · Mauch Chunk Group3
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group2
- Diamond Peak Formation2
- Maxville Limestone Formation2
- Carrickaness Sandstone Formation1
- Little Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Sulcatopinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sulcatopinna and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Sulcatopinna and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Edmondia5 sites
- Cystodictya3 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri3 sites
- Nuculopsis3 sites
- Spirifer3 sites
- Wilkingia andrewsi3 sites
- Aviculopecten2 sites
- Aviculopecten batesvillensis2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cypricardella2 sites
- Girtyella2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma)2 sites
- Limipecten greerensis2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) waverliensis2 sites
- Orthotetes2 sites
- Paleyoldia2 sites
- Phestia2 sites
- Phestia pandoraeformis2 sites
- Polidevcia stevensiana2 sites
- Posidonia2 sites
- Sanguinolites2 sites
- Schizodus2 sites
- Schizodus chesterensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Sulcatopinna, 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
9 references- Revision of Late Paleozoic pinnid genera and North American species of bivalve family Pinnidae10
- Bivalve mollusks from the Maxville Limestone (Mississippian) in Ohio2
- Comparison of the structure of a Mississippian and a Holocene pen shell assemblage1
- Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia1
- Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Mauch Chunk Group (Mississippian, Chesterian) of northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania1
- The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland1
- Mississippian stratigraphy of the Diamond Peak Area, Eureka County, Nevada1
- Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana1
- The Paradise Formation and its fauna1
Each of the 19 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 content0
No picture of Sulcatopinna was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sulcatopinna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPinnidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1892)